Quick summary
For two people wanting the whole place, Guatemala's four tracked markets asked a median of $54 a night in Guatemala City, $82 in Antigua, $102 at Lake Atitlán and $107 on the Pacific coast — captured 1 Oct 2026 for a 3–5 Nov 2026 stay, priced for a 2-adult booking, with the lake and coast figures on small samples. Trading the whole place for a private room in someone else's home drops that to $45 in Antigua, $58 at Lake Atitlán and $74 on the Pacific coast, the three markets with enough rooms to publish a median. Air conditioning is a coastal amenity: 79% on the coast, 6% at the lake.
The four markets side by side
Data collected 2026-10-17 for a 2026-11-17 to 2026-11-19 stay. Airbnb prices change daily and by date: check live before booking.
| Market | Entire, 2 guests | Private room, 2 | Entire, 3–4 | Entire, 5–8 | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antigua Guatemala | $103 | $56* | $132 | $208 | 235 |
| Lake Atitlán | $101 | $52* | $146 | $235 | 183 |
| Guatemala City & metro | $61 | — | $57 | $126 | 173 |
| Pacific coast | $113* | $75* | $106* | $288 | 288 |
Captured 2026-10-17 · 2026-11-17→2026-11-19 · USD (capture date · stay queried · currency), searched for 2, 6 and 12 adults, 2-night weekday stay. Captured once a month: a capped sample of Airbnb search results for one fixed 2-night weekday stay about a month ahead, priced for the party size of the search that found each listing (2 adults for anything sleeping up to four; 6 or 12 adults only for larger homes that did not appear in the 2-adult search). Not every listing, only those still open for those dates; the nightly rate Airbnb showed for that stay (a displayed promotion is usually already inside it), not booked rates. Large homes are over-represented in the sample, so compare the guest-count segments, not the overall median. * = small sample (10–19 listings); — = fewer than 10, no median. Source: Airbnb search results via Apify.
The table below follows the median for an entire place sleeping two, capture by capture: the 4 Sep 2026 capture priced a 6–8 Oct 2026 stay and the 1 Oct 2026 capture a 3–5 Nov 2026 stay. Every comparison between the two captures on this page uses guest-count segment medians only, because the 1 Oct 2026 capture added searches aimed at larger groups and holds more large homes, so its market-wide medians and capacity mix do not line up with the first capture’s.
Median nightly rate, entire place, 2 guests, capture by capture (USD, the rate shown for the captured stay).
| Capture | Antigua Guatemala | Lake Atitlán | Guatemala City & metro | Pacific coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | $92 n=400 | $87 n=300 | $64 n=250 | $102 n=200 |
| 2026-10-01 | $82 n=237 | $102 n=166 | $54 n=175 | $107 n=287 |
| 2026-10-17 (current) | $103 n=235 | $101 n=183 | $61 n=173 | $113 n=288 |
Each capture is a capped sample of listings for a fixed two-night stay about a month out; n = that market's listings in the capture. A dash means fewer than 10 priced listings in that segment. Source: scripts/real_estate/build_airbnb_stats.py.
Same stay, other platforms: Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking.com in Guatemala puts the three platforms’ two-guest medians side by side, first captured 1 Oct 2026.
The three ways to sleep two, priced
The live table above carries the entire-place and private-room columns. It does not carry the third product a couple actually gets offered — hotel rooms listed on Airbnb — so that column is set out here from the same 1 Oct 2026 capture, with the sample behind each figure:
| Market | Entire place, 2 guests | Private room, 2 guests | Hotel room on Airbnb, 2 guests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antigua Guatemala | $82 ($70–$120, 21 listings) | $45* ($35–$53, 15) | $75* ($65–$202, 12) |
| Lake Atitlán | $102* ($93–$157, 16) | $58* ($44–$100, 11) | — (5 listings, below the floor) |
| Guatemala City & metro | $54 ($47–$61, 31) | — (2 listings) | — (2 listings) |
| Pacific coast | $107* ($86–$132, 14) | $74* ($55–$76, 15) | $89* ($67–$111, 11) |
Airbnb search results captured 1 Oct 2026 for a 3–5 Nov 2026 weekday stay, priced for a 2-adult booking; medians and p25–p75 ranges in USD. * = small sample (10–19 listings). A dash means fewer than ten priced listings, so no median is published. The figure is the nightly rate Airbnb showed for that stay, and the capture’s sample note says a displayed promotion is usually already inside it; the capture returns no cleaning or service fee, so there is no all-in figure.
Three things fall out of that table that the headline numbers hide.
In the 1 Oct 2026 capture, a private room undercut every other priced way to sleep two in each market that could price one. In Antigua a private room asked $45 against $82 for the whole place — and the two products sit in the same town, on the same dates, in the same capture. At Lake Atitlán it was $58 against $102, and on the Pacific coast $74 against $107, all three room figures on small samples. Against the first capture, the Antigua room went from $35 on 4 Sep 2026 to $45 on 1 Oct 2026 and the lake room from $43 to $58, while Antigua’s whole place went from $92 to $82. Whether that trade is worth it is a preference question; the price of the trade is not.
Only Guatemala City cannot price a private room this time. It returned 2, below the ten-listing floor. The Pacific coast, which had no publishable private-room median on 4 Sep 2026, cleared the floor on 1 Oct 2026 with 15 rooms at $74. A thin count is not a claim that private rooms are rare in the capital in the real world — it is a claim that they were rare in listings still open for the queried dates, which is a different and more modest statement.
In Antigua, hotel rooms on Airbnb swung hardest between the two captures. Antigua’s two-guest hotel rooms were $256 on 4 Sep 2026 and $75 on 1 Oct 2026, now below the town’s $82 entire-place figure, on a small sample of 12 rooms. The Pacific coast was $89 in both captures, against $107 for an entire place on 1 Oct 2026. Guatemala City, at $166 on 4 Sep 2026, dropped below the ten-listing floor with 2 rooms, and the lake returned 5. Hotel rooms are 8% of Antigua’s sample, 3% of the capital’s, 7% of the coast’s and 5% of the lake’s, so this is a niche within each market rather than its centre of gravity.
The amenities that decide a couple’s stay
This page tracks four practical things for a two-person booking: can you work, can you cook, can you sleep in the heat, and can you park. Those shares, as listed in the 1 Oct 2026 capture:
| Market | Wi-Fi | Kitchen | Air conditioning | Free parking | Listings showing a promotion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antigua Guatemala | 99% | 85% | 10% | 63% | 33% (median 13% off) |
| Lake Atitlán | 98% | 88% | 6% | 52% | 24% (median 12% off) |
| Guatemala City & metro | 98% | 93% | 21% | 86% | 34% (median 12% off) |
| Pacific coast | 76% | 89% | 79% | 88% | 29% (median 13% off) |
Shares of listings that state the amenity, across the full market sample (Antigua 237, Lake Atitlán 166, Guatemala City 175, Pacific coast 287), captured 1 Oct 2026. What the listing lists — an absent tag is not proof the amenity is missing.
Wi-Fi is close to universal everywhere except the coast, where 76% state it — the lowest of the four, and the one market where a remote worker should read the individual listing rather than assume. Kitchens run high in all four markets, from 85% in Antigua to 93% in the capital.
Air conditioning is the sharpest split in the whole dataset. Seventy-nine percent on the Pacific coast against 10% in Antigua and 6% at Lake Atitlán. If you are coming from a hot climate and expect AC as standard, Antigua and Lake Atitlán will surprise you — only 10% and 6% of their listings state it. Free parking follows a different line, plentiful on the coast and in the capital at 88% and 86%, and thinnest at the lake at 52%, which is the one number on this table a couple arriving by car should read twice.
Finally, promotions: between 24% and 34% of listings in each market displayed one, at a median 12–13% off. Every rate on this page is the nightly rate Airbnb showed for that stay, and the capture’s sample note says a displayed promotion is usually already inside it, so a live search on different dates may quote you more — or less.
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Data collected 2026-10-17 for a 2026-11-17 to 2026-11-19 stay (searches for 2, 6 and 12 adults). Airbnb prices change daily and by date: check live before booking.
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Nightly rate as Airbnb showed it on those dates for the party size of the search that found each listing (2 adults for every place sleeping up to four; 6 or 12 adults only for larger homes that did not appear in the 2-adult search) (a displayed promotion is usually already inside it), before extra-guest fees, cleaning, service fees and taxes. A capped monthly sample of Airbnb search results (large homes are over-represented); amenities are what the listing lists. Under 10 matches: no median; 10–19: small sample. No individual listing is ever shown.
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