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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Antigua Guatemala or Hobart?

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
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Hobart for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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, Hobart 30: Hobart leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Hobart 56: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Hobart 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Hobart 85: Hobart leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Hobart 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Hobart 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Hobart 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Hobart 45: Hobart leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Hobart 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Hobart.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Hobart
48match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts 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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaHobart

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). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaHobart
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123000
Elevation1,582 m54 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaHobart
City population59,091197,451
People per km²-116
Museums within 10 km28
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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.