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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Valletta?

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 Valletta for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Valletta 56: Antigua Guatemala leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Valletta 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Valletta 50: Antigua Guatemala leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Valletta 32: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Valletta.

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.

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches 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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaValletta
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m56 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaValletta
City population59,0915,197
People per km²-6,496
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. 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.