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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Hiroshima?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Hiroshima leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Hiroshima 60: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Hiroshima 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Hiroshima 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on day trips and beaches 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 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 GuatemalaHiroshima

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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaHiroshima
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 m3 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaHiroshima
City population59,0911,198,021
People per km²-1,324
Museums within 10 km218
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. 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.