Belek vs Costa Rica

Rectangular pool with blue tile in manicured lawn facing modern beige villa with lounge chairs, umbrellas, and woven hanging chair at Gloria Serenity Resort.

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

Belek and Costa Rica, 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

Belek compared with Costa Rica
Belek	Measure	Costa Rica
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
8 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	6
★ 4.7 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$1–$734/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$88–$261/night pp
0 of 8	Adults-only resorts	1 of 6
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
November–February	Rainy season	May–November ('green season'), with September–October seriously wet
May–June and September–October; July–August regularly tops 90°F	Sweet spot	December–April, bone-dry in Guanacaste

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

Belek

Costa Rica

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Belek and Costa Rica
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Belek · high °F	59	60	64	70	78	86	93	93	88	80	70	62
Costa Rica · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
Belek · rain (in)	8.6	5.7	3.5	1.6	1.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.5	3.3	6.3	10.4
Costa Rica · 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 Antalya and Guanacaste / Papagayo: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.