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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Portland?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Portland for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Portland’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, Portland 20: Portland leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Portland 68: Portland leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Portland 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Portland 52: Portland leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Portland 84: Portland leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Portland 58: Portland leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Portland 55: Portland leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Portland 62: Portland leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Portland 52: Portland leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Portland 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Portland 55: Portland leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala and Portland are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Portland.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Portland
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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
13 hdaylight a day

Portland in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaPortland

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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPortland
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m152 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPortland
City population59,091652,503
People per km²-1,736
Museums within 10 km217
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. 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.