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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule, Munich
MunichThe Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Munich by 0xd1ma, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Munich?

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

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

Choose Munich for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Munich’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, Munich 28: Munich leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Munich 62: Munich leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Munich 79: Munich leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Munich 56: Munich leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Munich 82: Munich leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Munich 86: Munich leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Munich 78: Munich leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Munich 86: Munich leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Munich 72: Munich leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Munich 32: Antigua Guatemala leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Munich 84: Munich leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Munich 62: Munich leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Munich.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Munich
Best match
67match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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
13 hdaylight a day

Munich in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaMunich

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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMunich
Official languageSpanishGerman
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m519 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaMunich
City population59,0911,505,036
People per km²-4,844
Museums within 10 km274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.