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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Puerto Princesa?

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
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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 Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Puerto Princesa 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Puerto Princesa 22: Antigua Guatemala leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Puerto Princesa 26: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Puerto Princesa 12: Antigua Guatemala leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Puerto Princesa 45: Puerto Princesa leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Puerto Princesa 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Puerto Princesa 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Puerto Princesa 10: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Puerto Princesa 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Puerto Princesa.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaPuerto Princesa

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.

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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 Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPuerto Princesa
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m98 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaPuerto Princesa
City population59,091316,384
People per km²-133
Museums within 10 km21
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.