Antigua vs Bahia

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

Turquoise pool with thatched-roof cabanas, loungers, and a daybed pavilion surrounded by tropical vegetation under cloudy sky.

Antigua and Bahia, 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 Bahia
Antigua	Measure	Bahia
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
8 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	4
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$332–$1179/night pp	Nightly rates	$128–$233/night pp (better)
6 of 8	Adults-only resorts	0 of 4
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
September–November	Rainy season	April–July
December–April	Sweet spot	September–March (southern-hemisphere spring and summer)

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Antigua

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Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Antigua and Bahia
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
Bahia · high °F	86	87	86	84	82	80	79	79	81	83	84	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
Bahia · rain (in)	2.7	3.9	6.1	10.9	10.5	8.5	6.9	4.4	3.3	3.9	4.1	4.9

Approximate climate normals for Island-wide and Bahia coast (Salvador): planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.