Guanacaste vs Italy

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

Modern wooden suite with horizontal slat cladding perched on rocky hillside overlooking sea, surrounded by Mediterranean vegetation and blue flowers.

Guanacaste and Italy, 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

Guanacaste compared with Italy
Guanacaste	Measure	Italy
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6	Resorts in our catalog	13 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.4 (better)
$88–$285/night pp	Nightly rates	$79–$518/night pp (better)
1 of 6	Adults-only resorts	0 of 13
Low hurricane risk	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October	Rainy season	October–December
December–April, bone-dry	Sweet spot	June and September; July–August is hot, busy, and priced accordingly

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

Guanacaste

Italy

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Guanacaste and Italy
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Guanacaste · high °F	91	92	93	93	91	88	88	88	87	86	87	89
Italy · high °F	59	60	63	68	75	83	88	88	82	74	66	60
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
Italy · rain (in)	2.8	2.4	1.9	1.7	0.9	0.4	0.2	0.5	1.6	3.9	3.7	3.3

Approximate climate normals for Papagayo / Guanacaste and Sicily: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.