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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Tangier?

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
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Tangier for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Tangier 57: Antigua Guatemala leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Tangier 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Tangier 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Tangier 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Tangier 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Tangier 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Tangier 28: Tangier leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Tangier.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Tangier
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaTangier

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). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaTangier
Official languageSpanishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation1,582 m56 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaTangier
City population59,0911,275,428
People per km²-6,393
Museums within 10 km26
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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.