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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Seville?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Seville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’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, Seville 18: Seville leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Seville 73: Seville leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Seville 82: Seville leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Seville 62: Seville leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Seville 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Seville 80: Seville leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Seville 55: Seville leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Seville 72: Seville leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Seville 55: Seville leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Seville 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Seville 68: Seville leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Seville 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 Seville.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaSeville

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). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaSeville
Official languageSpanishSpanish
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 m18 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaSeville
City population59,091689,423
People per km²-4,896
Museums within 10 km224
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. 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.