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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Glasgow?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Glasgow’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, Glasgow 14: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Glasgow 52: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Glasgow 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Glasgow 75: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Glasgow 58: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Glasgow 46: Antigua Guatemala leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Glasgow 28: Antigua Guatemala leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Glasgow.

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.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

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

Glasgow in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
4 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 GuatemalaGlasgow

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.

Glasgow 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.

Glasgow's sunshine is measured 90 km from the centre, at Eskdalemuir.

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). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaGlasgow
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 m21 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaGlasgow
City population59,091626,410
People per km²-190
Museums within 10 km229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.