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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Hong Kong?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Hong Kong for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Hong Kong’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, Hong Kong 50: Hong Kong leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Hong Kong 90: Hong Kong leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Hong Kong 60: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Hong Kong 68: Hong Kong leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Hong Kong 80: Hong Kong leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Hong Kong 68: Hong Kong leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Hong Kong 75: Hong Kong leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Hong Kong 97: Hong Kong leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Hong Kong 88: Hong Kong leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Hong Kong 27: Antigua Guatemala leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Hong Kong 55: Hong Kong leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala and Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaHong Kong

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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaHong Kong
Official languageSpanishStandard Chinese
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123999
Elevation1,582 m7 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaHong Kong
City population59,0917,413,070
Museums within 10 km239
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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.