Costa del Sol vs Soufrière & South St. Lucia

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

Private villa courtyard at Serenity at Coconut Bay with turquoise plunge pool, loungers, and pink cottage beyond palm trees.

Soufrière & South St. Lucia5 resorts · ★ 4.6 average

Costa del Sol and Soufrière & South St. Lucia, 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 Soufrière & South St. Lucia
Costa del Sol	Measure	Soufrière & South St. Lucia
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	5
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$67–$526/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$116–$810/night pp
0 of 6	Adults-only resorts	4 of 5
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
Málaga (AGP), most resorts 20–60 min west along the coast	Airport	Hewanorra (UVF) at Vieux Fort: Soufrière 45–60 min, the Vieux Fort resorts 5–10 min
Sun with Andalusia attached; day trips to Granada, Seville and Ronda	Best for	Honeymoons, the view, snorkelling off Anse Chastanet, a resort beside the airport
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

Soufrière & South St. Lucia

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Costa del Sol and Soufrière & South St. Lucia
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
Soufrière & South St. Lucia · 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
Soufrière & South St. Lucia · 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 Hewanorra (Vieux Fort); the hills above Soufrière run wetter: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.