Brazil vs Guanacaste

Costao do Santinho Resort sits on a hillside overlooking the ocean, with a large blue pool, loungers, and multi-story beige buildings surrounded by lush green vegetation.

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

Brazil 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

Brazil compared with Guanacaste
Brazil	Measure	Guanacaste
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
$119–$405/night pp	Nightly rates	$88–$285/night pp (better)
0 of 8	Adults-only resorts	1 of 6
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
April–July on the northeast coast	Rainy season	May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October
September–March (southern-hemisphere spring and summer)	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

Brazil

Guanacaste

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Brazil and Guanacaste
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Brazil · high °F	86	87	86	84	82	80	79	79	81	83	84	85
Guanacaste · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
Brazil · rain (in)	2.7	3.9	6.1	10.9	10.5	8.5	6.9	4.4	3.3	3.9	4.1	4.9
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 Northeast coast (Bahia) and Papagayo / Guanacaste: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.