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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind, Queenstown
QueenstownThe wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Queenstown by Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Queenstown?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Queenstown for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Queenstown’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, Queenstown 20: Queenstown leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Queenstown 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Queenstown 12: Antigua Guatemala leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Queenstown 42: Queenstown leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Queenstown 97: Queenstown leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Queenstown 50: Antigua Guatemala leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Queenstown 60: Queenstown leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Queenstown 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Queenstown 28: Antigua Guatemala leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Queenstown 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Queenstown 14: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala and Queenstown 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 Queenstown.

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 prices with your weighting.

Queenstown
40match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors 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

Queenstown in July

6 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
115 mmrain in the month
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaQueenstown

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.

Queenstown 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). Queenstown: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaQueenstown
Official languageSpanishEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123111
Elevation1,582 m324 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsQueenstown Airport (ZQN)7 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaQueenstown
City population59,09129,000
Museums within 10 km20
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.