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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi, Kochi
KochiThe Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Kochi by Vis M, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Kochi?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Kochi for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Kochi’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, Kochi 38: Kochi leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Kochi 66: Kochi leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Kochi 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Kochi 18: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Kochi 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Kochi 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Kochi 40: Kochi leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Kochi 44: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala and Kochi are level on 45.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Kochi 88: Kochi leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Kochi 40: Kochi leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Kochi 70: Kochi leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Kochi.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and nightlife with your weighting.

Kochi
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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 seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Kochi in July

27 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
439 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaKochi

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.

Kochi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Kochi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaKochi
Official languageSpanishHindi, English
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123108 or 112
Elevation1,582 m0 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsCochin International Airport (COK)24 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaKochi
City population59,091677,381
People per km²-7,138
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.