Guatemala Travel Vaccine Cost Calculator

Strip away the price list and the medicine is simple. Every Guatemala trip starts from the routine base — MMR, Tdap, chickenpox, flu — that most adults are due to refresh anyway. On top of that, hepatitis A ($102 for the two-dose series) and typhoid ($56) are the standard additions for most international itineraries.

Hepatitis B ($147 for three doses) is increasingly recommended for all travelers, not just healthcare workers. Dengue and chikungunya circulate in Guatemala's lowlands; the CDC also recommends hepatitis A and typhoid as baseline for all Guatemala trips. Yellow fever does not feature for this destination at all.

Rabies pre-exposure ($292 for three visits) stays optional — clinics reserve it for remote itineraries and long stays.

Cost per protection, ranked for Guatemala: hepatitis A at $102 guards against the single most common vaccine-preventable travel disease and lasts decades — arguably the best value on the list. Typhoid at $56 protects a narrower risk but one that exists wherever food handling varies. The $50 consultation buys the itinerary-specific advice this page can only approximate.

Hepatitis B ($147) and tetanus ($38) round out the standard set at $393. Rabies at $292 is the outlier: three doses, no cheap shortcut, and a purchase you make hoping never to need. Group arithmetic is where Guatemala totals bite — the calculator multiplies per-person costs across your whole party.

Vaccination math rewards the early bird. Hepatitis A's first dose gives most of its protection within two weeks — but the full value needs dose two at six months, which for a short Guatemala trip simply becomes a future appointment at home. Hepatitis B's standard schedule stretches across six months; the accelerated option compresses to three weeks plus a one-year booster, which is exactly why Guatemala clinics ask your departure date first.

Rabies pre-exposure is days 0, 7 and 21 or 28 — tight but doable inside a month before Guatemala. Yellow fever plays no role for Guatemala, so the calendar is pure scheduling, not paperwork. The practical move for a Guatemala departure: book the clinic the same week you book the flights.

On the malaria question for Guatemala: Guatemala's malaria risk sits below 1,500 m in rural areas — Guatemala City, Antigua and Lake Atitlán are risk-free. Where tablets are advised, the two mainstream options price differently: doxycycline at roughly $12/week (cheap, daily, sun-sensitivity caveat) versus atovaquone-proguanil at roughly $55/week (pricier, better tolerated, must be continued a week after leaving). Clinics here lean doxycycline.

No vaccine certificates are checked on standard Guatemala arrivals — the yellow card only enters play if your routing passes through an endemic country first. Series timing shapes the Guatemala budget: hepatitis B ($147) and rabies ($292) need weeks to multiple visits, while the hepatitis A and typhoid doses in the essential tier ($208) protect within days.