Costa del Sol vs Rodney Bay

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

White colonial-style building with terracotta roof and arched windows overlooks a rectangular blue pool surrounded by palm trees and loungers.

Costa del Sol and Rodney Bay, 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 Rodney Bay
Costa del Sol	Measure	Rodney Bay
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6	Resorts in our catalog	8 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.5 (better)
$67–$526/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$87–$564/night pp
0 of 6	Adults-only resorts	1 of 8
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
November–March	Rainy season	June–November, heaviest September–October
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	December–April
Sun with Andalusia attached; day trips to Granada, Seville and Ronda	Best for	First St. Lucia trips, families, walk-to-dinner travelers
May–October; July and August are hottest and busiest	Season	December–April dry; June–November wetter (hurricane belt)

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

Rodney Bay

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Costa del Sol and Rodney Bay
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
Rodney Bay · high °F	84	84	85	87	88	88	88	88	88	87	86	84
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
Rodney Bay · rain (in)	3.7	2.6	2.4	3.4	4.4	7.5	8.1	8.9	8.4	9.2	7.7	5.2

Approximate climate normals for Málaga and Rodney Bay / Gros Islet: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.