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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Dublin?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Dublin for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Dublin leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Dublin 50: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Dublin 64: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Dublin 70: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Dublin 57: Dublin leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Dublin 54: Dublin leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Dublin 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Dublin 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Dublin.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Dublin
Best match
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaDublin

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). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDublin
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 m20 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDublin
City population59,091592,713
People per km²-5,154
Museums within 10 km240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.