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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Daytona Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Daytona Beach’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, Daytona Beach 80: Daytona Beach leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Daytona Beach 36: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Daytona Beach 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Daytona Beach 40: Daytona Beach leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Daytona Beach 56: Antigua Guatemala leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Daytona Beach 66: Daytona Beach leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Daytona Beach 18: Antigua Guatemala leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Daytona Beach 27: Antigua Guatemala leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Daytona Beach 46: Antigua Guatemala leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Daytona Beach 30: Daytona Beach leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Daytona Beach 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
Best match
47match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on beaches and families 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 seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaDaytona Beach

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.

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). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDaytona Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m4 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDaytona Beach
City population59,09172,647
People per km²-440
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-9 months

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.