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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Naples?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Naples for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’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, Naples 50: Naples leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Naples 83: Naples leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Naples 87: Naples leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Naples 60: Naples leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Naples 77: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Naples 96: Naples leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Naples 45: Naples leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Naples 54: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Naples 60: Naples leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Naples 63: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Naples 66: Naples leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Naples 44: Naples 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 Naples.

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 prices with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

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

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaNaples

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.

Naples 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.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

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). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaNaples
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m17 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaNaples
City population59,091913,462
People per km²-7,676
Museums within 10 km265
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.