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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Fukuoka?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Fukuoka for

  • beaches
  • families
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Fukuoka’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, Fukuoka 50: Fukuoka leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Fukuoka 50: Antigua Guatemala leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Fukuoka 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Fukuoka 84: Fukuoka leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Fukuoka 78: Fukuoka leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Fukuoka 65: Fukuoka leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Fukuoka 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Fukuoka 45: Fukuoka leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Fukuoka.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

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

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaFukuoka

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). Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaFukuoka
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1,582 m8 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaFukuoka
City population59,0911,603,043
People per km²-4,715
Museums within 10 km223
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.