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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Krabi?

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
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Krabi 50: Krabi leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Krabi 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Krabi 33: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Krabi 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Krabi 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Krabi 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Krabi 12: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Krabi.

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 culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaKrabi

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.

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaKrabi
Official languageSpanishThai
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation1,582 m16 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaKrabi
City population59,09130,499
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.