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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Yokohama?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Yokohama 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Yokohama 66: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 48 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Yokohama 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaYokohama

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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

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). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaYokohama
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1,582 m24 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaYokohama
City population59,0913,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.