Costa del Sol vs Costa Rica

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

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

Costa del Sol 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

Costa del Sol compared with Costa Rica
Costa del Sol	Measure	Costa Rica
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6	Resorts in our catalog	6
★ 4.4 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$67–$526/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$88–$261/night pp
0 of 6	Adults-only resorts	1 of 6
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
November–March	Rainy season	May–November ('green season'), with September–October seriously wet
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	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

Costa del Sol

Costa Rica

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Costa del Sol and Costa Rica
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Costa del Sol · high °F	63	64	67	70	75	81	86	86	82	75	68	64
Costa Rica · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
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
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 Málaga and Guanacaste / Papagayo: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.