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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 Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Sapporo?

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 Sapporo for

  • wellness
  • families
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Sapporo leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Sapporo 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Sapporo 62: Sapporo leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Sapporo 86: Sapporo leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Sapporo 64: Sapporo leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Sapporo 60: Antigua Guatemala leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Sapporo 44: Sapporo leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Sapporo.

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.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness 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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaSapporo

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). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaSapporo
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1,582 m5 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaSapporo
City population59,0911,959,313
People per km²-1,747
Museums within 10 km233
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.