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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Osaka?

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 Osaka for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Osaka 63: Antigua Guatemala leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Osaka 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Osaka 60: Antigua Guatemala leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Osaka.

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.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on families 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaOsaka

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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaOsaka
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1,582 m20 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaOsaka
City population59,0912,751,862
People per km²-12,340
Museums within 10 km244
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
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. 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.