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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Edinburgh?

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 Edinburgh for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Edinburgh’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, Edinburgh 22: Edinburgh leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Edinburgh 53: Edinburgh leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Edinburgh 75: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Edinburgh 62: Edinburgh leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Edinburgh 74: Edinburgh leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Edinburgh 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Edinburgh 72: Edinburgh leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Edinburgh 34: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Edinburgh.

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.

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaEdinburgh

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.

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

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). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaEdinburgh
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112 or 999
Elevation1,582 m47 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaEdinburgh
City population59,091488,050
People per km²-1,884
Museums within 10 km232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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. 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.