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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Oslo?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Oslo for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’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, Oslo 36: Oslo leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Oslo 55: Oslo leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Oslo 66: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Oslo 48: Oslo leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Oslo 82: Oslo leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Oslo 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Oslo 63: Oslo leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Oslo 14: Antigua Guatemala leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Oslo.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and beaches 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

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaOslo

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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaOslo
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation1,582 m23 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaOslo
City population59,091717,710
Museums within 10 km260
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.