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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Victoria Falls?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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 Falls 7: Victoria Falls leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Victoria Falls 24: Antigua Guatemala leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Victoria Falls 12: Antigua Guatemala leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Victoria Falls 8: Antigua Guatemala leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Victoria Falls 22: Antigua Guatemala leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala and Victoria Falls are level on 38.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Victoria Falls 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Victoria Falls 18: Antigua Guatemala leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Victoria Falls 32: Antigua Guatemala leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Victoria Falls 10: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Victoria Falls 34: Antigua Guatemala 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 Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
Best match
47match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
13 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaVictoria Falls

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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaVictoria Falls
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123999
Elevation1,582 m961 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaVictoria Falls
City population59,09133,060
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. 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.