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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Montevideo?

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 Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Montevideo 54: Antigua Guatemala leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Montevideo 34: Antigua Guatemala leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala and Montevideo are level on 55.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Montevideo 54: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Montevideo 36: Antigua Guatemala leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Montevideo 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Montevideo 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antigua Guatemala
47match

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

Montevideo
49match

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaMontevideo

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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMontevideo
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m41 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMontevideo
City population59,0911,302,954
People per km²-1,785
Museums within 10 km236
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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.