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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Monaco?

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 Monaco for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’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, Monaco 68: Monaco leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Monaco 57: Monaco leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Monaco 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Monaco 48: Monaco leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Monaco 70: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Monaco 60: Monaco leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Monaco 3: Antigua Guatemala leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Monaco.

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.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts 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

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaMonaco

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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMonaco
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m68 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMonaco
City population59,09138,857
People per km²-18,503
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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.