Aruba vs Guanacaste

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

Aruba 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

Aruba compared with Guanacaste
Aruba	Measure	Guanacaste
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
9 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	7
★ 4.4 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$88–$289/night pp (better)
2 of 9	Adults-only resorts	1 of 7
Outside the hurricane belt (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	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

Aruba

Guanacaste

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Guanacaste
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Guanacaste · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2
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 Palm Beach / Eagle Beach and Papagayo / Guanacaste: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.