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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Antigua Guatemala or New Orleans?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: New Orleans leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, New Orleans 67: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, New Orleans 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, New Orleans 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, New Orleans 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, New Orleans 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, New Orleans 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and New Orleans.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

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

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaNew Orleans

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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaNew Orleans
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m-2 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaNew Orleans
City population59,091383,997
People per km²-423
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.