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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Cork?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Antigua Guatemala for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Antigua Guatemala’s own page.

Choose Cork for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Antigua Guatemala 6, Cork 25: Cork leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Cork 58: Cork leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Cork 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Cork 40: Cork leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Cork 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Cork 68: Cork leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Cork 50: Cork leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Cork 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Cork 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Cork 33: Antigua Guatemala leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Cork 45: Cork leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Cork 22: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Cork.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cork
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antigua Guatemala in July

25 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaCork

Where the figures come from

Antigua Guatemala has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antigua Guatemala: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Guatemala Aeropuertola Aurora (23.5 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaCork
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m0 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaCork
City population59,091222,333
People per km²-5,961
Museums within 10 km25
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.