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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Vienna?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Vienna for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Vienna leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Vienna 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Vienna 74: Vienna leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Vienna 44: Antigua Guatemala leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 74 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Vienna.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
13 hdaylight a day

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaVienna

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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaVienna
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m151 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaVienna
City population59,0912,028,289
People per km²-4,890
Museums within 10 km2152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13

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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. 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.