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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Melbourne?

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

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Melbourne 57: Antigua Guatemala leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Melbourne 70: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Melbourne 62: Melbourne leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Melbourne 31: Antigua Guatemala leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaMelbourne

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). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMelbourne
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123000
Elevation1,582 m31 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMelbourne
City population59,0915,350,705
People per km²-535
Museums within 10 km243
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.