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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Izmir?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Izmir for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Izmir’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, Izmir 62: Izmir leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Izmir 72: Izmir leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Izmir 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Izmir 60: Izmir leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Izmir 66: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Izmir 86: Izmir leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Izmir 63: Izmir leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Izmir 66: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Izmir 48: Izmir leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Izmir 57: Izmir leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Izmir.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaIzmir

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). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaIzmir
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 m2 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaIzmir
City population59,0914,493,242
People per km²-4,760
Museums within 10 km229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.