Greece vs Guanacaste

Curved turquoise pool with metal railing overlooking white resort buildings, beach loungers, and Mediterranean Sea under clear blue sky.

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

Greece 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

Greece compared with Guanacaste
Greece	Measure	Guanacaste
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
37 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	6
★ 4.6 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$45–$2113/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$88–$285/night pp
7 of 37	Adults-only resorts	1 of 6
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
November–February	Rainy season	May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October
Late May–June and September–early October (July–August is hottest and busiest)	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

Greece

Guanacaste

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Greece and Guanacaste
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Greece · high °F	60	61	64	69	76	83	85	85	81	74	68	62
Guanacaste · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
Greece · rain (in)	3.5	3.0	2.2	1.0	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.8	2.7	2.3	3.0
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 Crete and Papagayo / Guanacaste: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.