Antigua vs Guanacaste

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

Illuminated beachfront dining pavilion with white railings and thatched-roof bungalows reflected in the pool at dusk.

Antigua and Guanacaste, 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 Guanacaste
Antigua	Measure	Guanacaste
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
8 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	7
★ 4.5 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$332–$1179/night pp	Nightly rates	$88–$289/night pp (better)
6 of 8	Adults-only resorts	1 of 7
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk (better)
September–November	Rainy season	May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October
December–April	Sweet spot	December–April, bone-dry

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

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Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Antigua and Guanacaste
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
Guanacaste · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
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
Guanacaste · rain (in)	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.7	7.7	9.0	5.9	7.9	13.0	12.2	4.3	0.5

Approximate climate normals for Island-wide and Papagayo / Guanacaste: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.