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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Los Cabos?

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 Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Cabos’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, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Los Cabos 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala and Los Cabos are level on 78.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Los Cabos 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Los Cabos 28: Antigua Guatemala leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Los Cabos 36: Antigua Guatemala leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Los Cabos 28: Antigua Guatemala leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Los Cabos 12: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Los Cabos.

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.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Los Cabos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
19 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaLos Cabos

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.

Los Cabos has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaLos Cabos
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m11 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaLos Cabos
City population59,091202,694
Museums within 10 km21
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.