Corfu vs Costa del Sol

Aerial view of Ikos Dassia beach club with curved blue pool, white cabanas, sandy beach, and turquoise sea.

Ikos Andalusia's outdoor bar terrace features woven pendant lamps, bar seating, and tall palm trees with pink flowering plants in foreground.

Corfu and Costa del Sol, 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

Corfu compared with Costa del Sol
Corfu	Measure	Costa del Sol
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
4	Resorts in our catalog	6 (better)
★ 4.5 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$205–$583/night pp	Nightly rates	$67–$526/night pp (better)
0 of 4	Adults-only resorts	0 of 6
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
October–March	Rainy season	November–March
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest
Corfu (CFU), beside the town; the east-coast resorts are 20–40 min away	Airport	Málaga (AGP), most resorts 20–60 min west along the coast
Luxury all-inclusives, scenery, an old town worth an evening, calm water	Best for	Sun with Andalusia attached; day trips to Granada, Seville and Ronda
May–October; June and September are the sweet spots	Season	May–October; July and August are hottest and busiest
None tropical; the wettest Greek island, but the rain falls October–March	Weather risk	None tropical; dry Mediterranean summers

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

Corfu

Costa del Sol

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Corfu and Costa del Sol
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Corfu · high °F	57	58	61	67	75	83	88	88	82	74	65	59
Costa del Sol · high °F	63	64	67	70	75	81	86	86	82	75	68	64
Corfu · rain (in)	5.5	4.6	3.5	2.4	1.4	0.6	0.3	0.7	2.7	5.3	7.4	7.0
Costa del Sol · rain (in)	2.7	2.3	1.9	1.6	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.9	2.2	3.7	3.9

Approximate climate normals for Corfu (east coast) and Málaga: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.