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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Inverness?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Inverness for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Inverness’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, Inverness 20: Inverness leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Inverness 36: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Inverness 27: Antigua Guatemala leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Inverness 28: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Inverness 84: Inverness leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Inverness 56: Inverness leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Inverness 55: Inverness leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Inverness 48: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Inverness 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Inverness 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Inverness 33: Inverness leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Inverness 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Inverness.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
Best match
47match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Inverness
40match

Wins on families 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

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaInverness

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.

Inverness 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.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

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). Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaInverness
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112 or 999
Elevation1,582 m7 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaInverness
City population59,09147,380
People per km²-2,289
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.