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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, Goreme
GoremeHot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Goreme by Guerrero De la Luz, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Goreme?

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

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Goreme for

  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Goreme’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, Goreme 3: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Goreme 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Goreme 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Goreme 5: Antigua Guatemala leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Goreme 74: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Goreme 70: Goreme leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Goreme 40: Goreme leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Goreme 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Goreme 22: Antigua Guatemala leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Goreme 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Goreme 10: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala and Goreme 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 Goreme.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
Best match
47match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Goreme
36match

Wins on day trips 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
13 hdaylight a day

Goreme in July

30 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaGoreme

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.

Goreme's station stands 160 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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). Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaGoreme
Official languageSpanishTurkish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m1,100 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaGoreme
City population59,0912,000
People per km²-20
Museums within 10 km25
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. 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.