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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Puerto Iguazu?

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
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Iguazu for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Iguazu’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, Puerto Iguazu 5: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Puerto Iguazu 28: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Puerto Iguazu 9: Antigua Guatemala leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Puerto Iguazu 14: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Puerto Iguazu 95: Puerto Iguazu leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Puerto Iguazu 33: Antigua Guatemala leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Puerto Iguazu 55: Puerto Iguazu leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Puerto Iguazu 54: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Puerto Iguazu 17: Antigua Guatemala leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Puerto Iguazu 48: Antigua Guatemala leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Puerto Iguazu 7: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Puerto Iguazu 34: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Puerto Iguazu.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
Best match
47match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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
13 hdaylight a day

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPuerto Iguazu
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123117 or 911
Elevation1,582 m162 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPuerto Iguazu
City population59,09154,903
Museums within 10 km20
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. 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.