Antigua Guatemala

Guatemala · Latin America & Caribbean

61Safety indexModerate

U.S. State DeptLevel 3 · Reconsider travel

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 2 · Increased caution

UK FCDOLevel 2 · Increased caution

Smartraveller (AU)Level 2 · Increased caution

4/5metric categories covered

Open comparison

14.56°, -90.73°

Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Antigua Guatemala scores 61 out of 100, placing it safer than about 26% of the cities we score, so safer than only a quarter of the field.

Its homicide rate is 8.1 per 100,000, roughly 5 times the median we track, though the figure covers the wider municipality and we derived the rate from a count and a population. Robbery is recorded at 29.3 per 100,000, a municipality figure that police records understate and that rests on a different definition than we use elsewhere. The four governments split on framing: the US is the most cautious at level three, reconsider travel, while Canada, the UK, and Australia each hold Guatemala one step lower at increased caution. The advisories flag pickpocketing and scams aimed at visitors.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern

Violent crime16

Robbery & theft5

Travel advisory67

The radar shows the three sourced, comparable risk measures (homicide, robbery, the strictest travel-advisory level). Tourist petty-crime signals are a different kind of measure — how often advisories mention them — so they are shown as rows under Tourist-specific incidents, not as radar axes.

Homicide / general violence

Intentional homicides (per 100,000)

8.1/100k

Figure is for Antigua Guatemala (municipio) (municipality), wider than Antigua Guatemala itself.

Rate computed by project-atlas: 5 (count, 2024) ÷ 61360 population (INE Guatemala — Estimaciones y proyecciones de poblacion municipal 2015-2030, 2024) × 100k.

Primary source: INE Guatemala — Hechos delictivos: Víctimas (PNC)

Where this sits on the scaleHigh

01·3·8·20·40 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 23% of tracked cities

8.1/100k

0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)

29.3/100k

Police-recorded robbery (PNC) substantially undercounts true incidence — Guatemala has a high share of unreported crime (cifra negra). Read this as recorded robbery, not total robbery.

Sums all Guatemalan penal "robo" offence codes (force/threat; ICCS 0401), including vehicle and motorcycle robbery — broader than a pure robbery-of-persons series, so only loosely comparable to peer cities.

Figure is for Antigua Guatemala (municipio) (municipality), wider than Antigua Guatemala itself.

Rate computed by project-atlas: 18 (count, 2024) ÷ 61360 population (INE Guatemala — Estimaciones y proyecciones de poblacion municipal 2015-2030, 2024) × 100k.

Primary source: INE Guatemala — Hechos delictivos: Víctimas (PNC)

Where this sits on the scaleLow

040·120·250·400·600 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 77% of tracked cities

29.3/100k

0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

U.S. State DeptLevel 3 · Reconsider travel

Primary source: U.S. Department of State — Guatemala Travel Advisory

Global Affairs Canada

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Guatemala Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO

UK FCDOLevel 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: UK FCDO — Guatemala travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)

Smartraveller (AU)Level 2 · Increased caution

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Guatemala travel advice

Tourist-specific incidents

How often government travel advisories mention each — a source-consensus signal, not a risk rate.

Pickpocketing & petty theft in travel advisories

3 of 3 advisories mention this

project-atlas count: 3 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Guatemala travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories

3 of 3 advisories mention this

project-atlas count: 3 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Guatemala travel advice (Safety and security)