Aruba vs Guanacaste

Turquoise pool with loungers and fire pits on sand deck, surrounded by curved resort building with white cabanas and green-roofed central structure.

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.

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
11 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	6
★ 4.4 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$143–$528/night pp	Nightly rates	$88–$285/night pp (better)
2 of 11	Adults-only resorts	1 of 6
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.