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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

Antigua Guatemala or Phuket?

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
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Phuket for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’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, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 84 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Phuket 66: Phuket leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Phuket 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Phuket 80: Phuket leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Phuket 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Phuket 65: Phuket leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Phuket 22: Antigua Guatemala leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Phuket 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Phuket 68: Phuket leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Phuket 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Phuket.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaPhuket

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.

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

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). Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPhuket
Official languageSpanishThai
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation1,582 m19 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPhuket
City population59,09177,610
People per km²-6,468
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.