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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Antigua Guatemala or Wellington?

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 Wellington for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Wellington 44: Antigua Guatemala leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Wellington 45: Wellington leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala and Wellington are level on 78.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Wellington 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Wellington 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Wellington 33: Antigua Guatemala leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Wellington 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Wellington.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Wellington
49match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaWellington

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.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaWellington
Official languageSpanishEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123111
Elevation1,582 m0 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaWellington
City population59,091216,200
People per km²-487
Museums within 10 km212
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.