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.

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
9 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	4
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$187–$2456/night pp	Nightly rates	$119–$233/night pp (better)
7 of 9	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

Bahia

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.