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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Bougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral, Limassol
LimassolBougainvillea and the dome of Agia Napa Cathedral

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Limassol by Julian Lupyan, CC0.

Antigua Guatemala or Limassol?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Limassol for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Limassol’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, Limassol 77: Limassol leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Limassol 58: Limassol leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Limassol 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Limassol 50: Limassol leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Limassol 65: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Limassol 76: Limassol leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Limassol 63: Limassol leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Limassol 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Limassol 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Limassol 44: Antigua Guatemala leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Limassol 32: Limassol leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala and Limassol are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Limassol.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Limassol
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Limassol in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
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.

Limassol 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.

Limassol's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Larnaca Airport.

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). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaLimassol
Official languageSpanishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 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 destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaLimassol
City population59,091107,970
People per km²-2,405
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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.