Curaçao vs Guanacaste

Striped lounge chairs line the pool deck at Sandals Royal Curaçao, a white colonial-style building with manicured grounds under clear blue sky.

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

Curaçao 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

Curaçao compared with Guanacaste
Curaçao	Measure	Guanacaste
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
5	Resorts in our catalog	6 (better)
★ 4.4 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$158–$1089/night pp	Nightly rates	$88–$285/night pp (better)
2 of 5	Adults-only resorts	1 of 6
Outside the hurricane belt (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
October–December, still modest by Caribbean standards	Rainy season	May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October
Year-round; May–November is the value window	Sweet spot	December–April, bone-dry

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

Curaçao

Guanacaste

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Curaçao and Guanacaste
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Curaçao · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Guanacaste · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
Curaçao · rain (in)	1.9	1.1	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.8	1.4	1.3	1.7	3.0	3.9	3.7
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 West-coast beaches and Papagayo / Guanacaste: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.