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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Mombasa?

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

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Mombasa for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Mombasa’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, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Mombasa 60: Mombasa leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Mombasa 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Mombasa 46: Mombasa leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Mombasa 74: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Mombasa 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Mombasa 45: Mombasa leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Mombasa 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Mombasa 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala and Mombasa are level on 22.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Mombasa 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Mombasa.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Mombasa
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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

Mombasa in July

28 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 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.

Mombasa 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). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMombasa
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation1,582 m50 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMombasa
City population59,0911,208,333
People per km²-4,100
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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. 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.