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Antigua and Barbuda
English · XCD · Atlantic Standard Time
How it scores for living there
- 69%Cost of livingRated 3 of 5 for living there, workable
- 0%Income taxRated 5 of 5 for living there, ideal
- NoneCapital gainsRated 5 of 5 for living there, ideal
- 32MbpsInternetRated 4 of 5 for living there, good
- 2.92Doctors /1,000Rated 3 of 5 for living there, workable
- 8PM2.5 ug/m3Rated 4 of 5 for living there, good
- 10.7Homicide /100kRated 1 of 5 for living there, bad
- 77.8Life expectancyRated 3 of 5 for living there, workable
- 73%People onlineRated 2 of 5 for living there, poor
- 11of 12Mild monthsRated 5 of 5 for living there, ideal
Facts, not judgements
- UTC-4Time zone
- XCDCurrency
- EnglishLanguage
- A, BPower plug
- 1.0mVisitors in 2019
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Climate and cost by city
Sea off St Johns: warmest September at 30°C, coolest February at 27°C.
Average monthly temperature and rainfall from Open-Meteo ERA5 (2019-2023 mean, CC BY 4.0). Sea surface temperature from Open-Meteo Marine. Price level from the World Bank ICP survey, same-year pairing, omitted where the survey does not cover the country.
Cost of living and lifestyle
Day to day, Antigua and Barbuda costs about 69% of the US level, on a World Bank income of $35k per person (PPP, 2025).
That percentage is measured against your country, not against ours. It follows the country picker in the header, or your account if you are signed in. With neither, it falls back to the United States, which is the 100 of the World Bank index, and the sentence says so.
World Bank ICP price level (US=100) and GNI per capita PPP, CC BY 4.0. It is a national average: a capital runs above it and a small town below it.
Getting to Antigua and Barbuda
Its main airport has non-stop service to 23 airports in the OpenFlights route database.
| From | Routing | Flight time | Cheapest fare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami | Non-stop | 3h 24m | €858 |
| Newark | Non-stop | 4h 16m | €525 |
| New York | Non-stop | 4h 18m | €379 |
| London | Non-stop | 8h 50m | €732 |
| London | Non-stop | 9h 05m | €689 |
Airports and non-stop routes from OpenFlights (Open Database License). Fares and flight times are cached one-way economy prices from Travelpayouts, the cheapest seen recently rather than a live quote or an average. They move; treat them as an order of magnitude.
What to see in Antigua and Barbuda
Ordered by how many people looked each place up over the last twelve months, so the list is measured interest and not our taste.
UNESCOharbor museum
Nelson's Dockyard
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mountain
Mount Obama
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Anglican or Episcopal cathedral
St. John's Cathedral
468 readers a month look it up
plantation
Betty's Hope
386 readers a month look it up
mountain range
Shekerley Mountains
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fort
Fort James
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bay
Dickenson Bay
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lagoon
Codrington Lagoon
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Photo credits
- Nelson's Dockyard: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Mount Obama: dearinaima, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- St. John's Cathedral: D'Arcy Norman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Betty's Hope: Z_dead from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Shekerley Mountains: dearinaima, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Fort James: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dickenson Bay: Paul Kowalow, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Codrington Lagoon: Capt. Decker R.N., PUBLIC DOMAIN, via Wikimedia Commons
The practical basics
- Local time…Atlantic Standard Time, America/Antigua
- CurrencyXCDISO 4217
- LanguagesEnglish
- PlugsA, B230/400 V 60 Hz
- UK travel adviceNo blanket warningFCDO, reviewed 2026-03-13
- Population94,209World Bank
Currency codes ISO 4217; plugs and voltage from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); time zone and flag from the countries-states-cities database (ODbL 1.0); travel advice from the UK FCDO (Open Government Licence v3).
How many people visit
Antigua and Barbuda logged 384,500 international arrivals in 2020, the last year the World Bank series covers. That is a pandemic year and it is not what a normal year looks like: in 2019 the same series counted 1.0 million.
World Bank indicator ST.INT.ARVL, international tourism arrivals, CC BY 4.0. Arrivals count trips, not people: the same visitor twice in a year counts twice.
Tax in Antigua and Barbuda, in one line
Antigua and Barbuda levies no personal income tax on residents. Capital gains: No capital gains tax in Antigua and Barbuda.
Tax figures are compiled by us and are being re-verified against primary sources. General information, not tax advice.
Data: World Bank, Open-Meteo, M-Lab, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, under open licences. General information, not tax or legal advice.