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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Durban

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Durban?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Durban for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Durban’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, Durban 80: Durban leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Durban 60: Durban leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Durban 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Durban 40: Durban leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Durban 68: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Durban 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Durban 60: Durban leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Durban 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Durban 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Durban 72: Durban leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Durban 40: Durban leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Durban 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 Durban.

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 getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Durban
49match

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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaDurban

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). Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDurban
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m22 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaDurban
City population59,091595,061
People per km²-2,634
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.