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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Las Vegas?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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, Las Vegas 10: Las Vegas leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Las Vegas 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Las Vegas 68: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Las Vegas 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Las Vegas 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Las Vegas 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Las Vegas 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Las Vegas 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Las Vegas.

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 culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Las Vegas
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
13 hdaylight a day

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaLas Vegas
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m610 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaLas Vegas
City population59,091641,903
People per km²-1,843
Museums within 10 km221
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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.