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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

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

Antigua Guatemala or Vancouver?

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 Vancouver for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Vancouver 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Vancouver 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Vancouver 27: Antigua Guatemala leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Vancouver 50: Vancouver 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 Vancouver.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaVancouver

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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaVancouver
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m2 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaVancouver
City population59,091662,248
People per km²-5,759
Museums within 10 km226
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. 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.