Egypt vs Guanacaste

White resort buildings overlook multiple blue pools with palm trees and loungers at Steigenberger Resort Alaya Marsa Alam, with the Red Sea beyond.

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

Egypt 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.

Egypt guide · Guanacaste guide · How we score

By the numbers

Egypt compared with Guanacaste
Egypt	Measure	Guanacaste
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
20 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	7
★ 4.7 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$62–$303/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$88–$289/night pp
4 of 20	Adults-only resorts	1 of 7
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
None to speak of	Rainy season	May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October
October–May; high summer is very hot (but dry, and the sea is warm)	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

Egypt

Guanacaste

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Egypt and Guanacaste
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Egypt · high °F	71	73	78	85	91	95	97	97	93	87	80	74
Guanacaste · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
Egypt · rain (in)	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
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 Red Sea coast (Hurghada) and Papagayo / Guanacaste: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.