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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Gold Coast?

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
  • prices
  • getting around

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

Choose Gold Coast for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Gold Coast’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, Gold Coast 92: Gold Coast leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Gold Coast 47: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Gold Coast 15: Antigua Guatemala leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Gold Coast 55: Gold Coast leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Gold Coast 82: Gold Coast leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Gold Coast 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Gold Coast 89: Gold Coast leads by 51 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Gold Coast 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Gold Coast 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Gold Coast 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Gold Coast 30: Gold Coast leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala and Gold Coast 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 Gold Coast.

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 prices with your weighting.

Gold Coast
Best match
52match

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

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaGold Coast

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.

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

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). Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaGold Coast
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+10
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123000
Elevation1,582 m12 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaGold Coast
City population59,091607,665
People per km²-433
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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.