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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Kotor?

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

  • shopping
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Kotor for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Kotor 37: Antigua Guatemala leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Kotor 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Kotor 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Kotor 36: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Kotor 48: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Kotor 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Kotor 57: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Kotor 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Kotor 24: Antigua Guatemala leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Kotor.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on shopping and wellness with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

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

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaKotor

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.

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaKotor
Official languageSpanishMontenegrin
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m10 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaKotor
City population59,091562
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.