Corfu vs Guanacaste

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

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

Corfu 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

Corfu compared with Guanacaste
Corfu	Measure	Guanacaste
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	$88–$261/night pp (better)
0 of 4	Adults-only resorts	1 of 6
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
October–March	Rainy season	May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	December–April, bone-dry
Corfu (CFU), beside the town; the east-coast resorts are 20–40 min away	Airport	Liberia (LIR), Papagayo resorts 30–45 min
East, facing the mainland: calm bays north and south of Corfu Town	The coast	Papagayo Peninsula, Playas del Coco, Conchal, Flamingo, Tamarindo
Luxury all-inclusives, scenery, an old town worth an evening, calm water	Best for	Nature + beach in one trip; reliable winter sun

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

Guanacaste

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Corfu and Guanacaste
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
Guanacaste · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
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
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 Corfu (east coast) and Papagayo / Guanacaste: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.