VacationSelector
The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Semperoper, Dresden
DresdenThe Semperoper

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Dresden by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Dresden?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

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

Choose Dresden for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Dresden’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, Dresden 10: Dresden leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Dresden 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Dresden 79: Dresden leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Dresden 47: Dresden leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Dresden 74: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Dresden 76: Dresden leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Dresden 60: Dresden leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Dresden 74: Dresden leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Dresden 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Dresden 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Dresden 76: Dresden leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala and Dresden are level on 42.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Dresden.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Dresden
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts 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 recordsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Dresden in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0100200300JFMAMJJASOND
Antigua GuatemalaDresden

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). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDresden
Official languageSpanishGerman
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m126 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDresden
City population59,091562,764
People per km²-1,713
Museums within 10 km270
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Antigua Guatemala or Dresden somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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. 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.