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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The cathedral and the Leaning Tower, Pisa
PisaThe cathedral and the Leaning Tower

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Pisa by Bruno Kraler, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Pisa?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Pisa for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Pisa’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, Pisa 58: Pisa leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Pisa 55: Pisa leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala and Pisa are level on 68.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Pisa 40: Pisa leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Pisa 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Pisa 92: Pisa leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Pisa 52: Pisa leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Pisa 76: Pisa leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Pisa 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Pisa 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Pisa 38: Pisa leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Pisa 45: Pisa leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Pisa.

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.

Pisa
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Pisa in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaPisa

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). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPisa
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 m4 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPisa
City population59,09188,737
People per km²-479
Museums within 10 km227
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.