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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Yogyakarta?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala and Yogyakarta are level on 68.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Yogyakarta 32: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Yogyakarta 72: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Yogyakarta 40: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Yogyakarta 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta 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 Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices 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 seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaYogyakarta

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.

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaYogyakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m113 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaYogyakarta
City population59,091422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.