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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Salzburg?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Salzburg leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Salzburg 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Salzburg 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Salzburg 32: Antigua Guatemala leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and beaches 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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaSalzburg

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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaSalzburg
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m424 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaSalzburg
City population59,091155,021
People per km²-2,360
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13

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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. 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.