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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
St. Petersburg, Florida

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

Antigua Guatemala or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala and St. Petersburg, Florida are level on 55.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Antigua Guatemala leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 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 St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches 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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m134 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population59,091258,308
People per km²-725
Museums within 10 km213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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.