Antigua vs Aruba

Aerial view of Hammock Cove Antigua with pools, beach loungers, wooden pier, and turquoise water with moored floats.

Manchebo Beach Resort & Spa's yellow-lit beachfront buildings with thatched roofs and palm trees at dusk, lounge chairs on patios overlooking a grass lawn.

Antigua and Aruba, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

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By the numbers

Antigua compared with Aruba
Antigua	Measure	Aruba
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
7	Resorts in our catalog	9
★ 4.5 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$332–$1061/night pp	Nightly rates	$143–$332/night pp
6 of 7	Adults-only resorts	2 of 9
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	Outside the hurricane belt
September–November	Rainy season	October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean
December–April	Sweet spot	Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it
English (official)	Language	Dutch & Papiamento (English universal)
East Caribbean dollar – USD widely accepted	Currency	Aruban florin; USD universally accepted
230V (110V at some hotels), Type A/B plugs	Power	120V, Type A/B plugs (same as the US)
On the left	Driving	On the right
V.C. Bird International, St. John's (ANU)	Main airport	Oranjestad (AUA)
~4–4.5h from the US East Coast	Flight time	~4–4.5h from the US East Coast

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country.

On the map

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Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Antigua and Aruba
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Antigua · high °F	82	82	83	84	86	87	87	88	88	87	85	83
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Antigua · rain (in)	2.6	1.7	1.7	2.4	3.6	2.5	3.0	3.9	4.9	5.5	5.5	3.5
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2

Approximate climate normals for Island-wide and Palm Beach / Eagle Beach: planning guidance, not a forecast. Deeper gold = hotter; deeper teal = wetter.

Where you'd actually stay

Best of Antigua

Full Antigua guide

Chains here: Elite Island Resorts · Hammock Cove · Cocobay Resort

Best of Aruba

Full Aruba guide

Chains here: Iberostar · Barceló · Renaissance Hotels