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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The British Columbia Parliament Buildings, Victoria
VictoriaThe British Columbia Parliament Buildings

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Victoria by Guilice, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Victoria?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Victoria for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria’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, Victoria 28: Victoria leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Victoria 50: Victoria leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Victoria 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Victoria 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Victoria 77: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Victoria 54: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Victoria 62: Victoria leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala and Victoria are level on 60.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Victoria 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Victoria 34: Antigua Guatemala leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Victoria 40: Victoria leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Victoria 48: Victoria leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Victoria.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Victoria
47match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Victoria in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
16 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.

Victoria's sunshine is measured 87 km from the centre, at Vancouver International Airport.

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). Victoria: 1991-2020 normals, Victoria Gonzales CS (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaVictoria
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 m23 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsVictoria International Airport (YYJ)25 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaVictoria
City population59,09191,867
People per km²-4,711
Museums within 10 km26
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.