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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Tromso?

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
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Tromso leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Tromso 36: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Tromso 27: Antigua Guatemala leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Tromso 14: Antigua Guatemala leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Tromso 45: Tromso leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala and Tromso are level on 60.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Tromso 15: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Tromso 11: Antigua Guatemala leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Tromso 32: Tromso leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Tromso 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Tromso.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
Best match
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaTromso

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaTromso
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation1,582 m20 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaTromso
City population59,09179,943
People per km²-32
Museums within 10 km28
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.