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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Florence?

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

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

Choose Florence for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Florence leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Florence 74: Florence leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Florence 94: Florence leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Florence 42: Florence leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Florence 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Florence 98: Florence leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Florence 45: Florence leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Florence 78: Florence leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Florence 72: Florence leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Florence 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Florence 58: Florence leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala and Florence are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Florence.

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.

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts 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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaFlorence

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.

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

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). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaFlorence
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m50 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaFlorence
City population59,091360,930
People per km²-3,528
Museums within 10 km2141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14

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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. 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.