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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower, Shanghai
ShanghaiThe Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Shanghai by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Shanghai?

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

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

Choose Shanghai for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Shanghai’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, Shanghai 10: Shanghai leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Shanghai 88: Shanghai leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Shanghai 72: Shanghai leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Shanghai 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Shanghai 90: Shanghai leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Shanghai 85: Shanghai leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Shanghai 82: Shanghai leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Shanghai 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Shanghai 66: Shanghai leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Shanghai 55: Shanghai 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 Shanghai.

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.

Shanghai
Best match
66match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Shanghai in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
151 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaShanghai
Official languageSpanishPutonghua
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation1,582 m4 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre207 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaShanghai
City population59,09124,870,895
People per km²-3,922
Museums within 10 km245
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.