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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Johannesburg by K, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Johannesburg?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Johannesburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Johannesburg’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, Johannesburg 5: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Johannesburg 56: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Johannesburg 62: Johannesburg leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Johannesburg 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Johannesburg 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Johannesburg 42: Johannesburg leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Johannesburg 18: Antigua Guatemala leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Johannesburg 72: Johannesburg leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Johannesburg 55: Johannesburg leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Johannesburg 28: Antigua Guatemala leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Johannesburg.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Johannesburg
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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
13 hdaylight a day

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaJohannesburg

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). Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaJohannesburg
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m1,753 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaJohannesburg
City population59,0914,803,262
People per km²-2,922
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12

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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. 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.