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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Krakow?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Krakow for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Krakow 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Krakow 58: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Krakow 36: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Krakow.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

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

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaKrakow

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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaKrakow
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m219 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaKrakow
City population59,091804,237
People per km²-2,459
Museums within 10 km2113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14

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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. 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.