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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Lima?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Lima for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Lima leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Lima 88: Lima leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Lima 66: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Lima 62: Lima leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Lima 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Lima 34: Antigua Guatemala leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Lima 42: Lima leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Lima 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Lima 52: Lima leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Lima 70: Lima leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Lima 53: Lima leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Lima 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Lima.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink and beaches 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaLima

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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaLima
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123111 or 911
Elevation1,582 m154 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaLima
City population59,0919,943,800
People per km²-3,721
Museums within 10 km247
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.