VacationSelector
The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Macau?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Macau for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Macau’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, Macau 24: Macau leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Macau 77: Macau leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Macau 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Macau 40: Macau leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Macau 5: Antigua Guatemala leads by 73 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Macau 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Macau 48: Macau leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala and Macau are level on 60.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Macau 58: Macau leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Macau 44: Antigua Guatemala leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Macau 36: Macau leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Macau 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Macau.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Macau
46match

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

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0100200300400JFMAMJJASOND
Antigua GuatemalaMacau

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). Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMacau
Official languageSpanishPortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123999
Elevation1,582 m22 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMacau
City population59,091682,100
People per km²-5,916
Museums within 10 km228
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Antigua Guatemala or Macau somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.