Guanacaste vs Malaysia

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

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Guanacaste and Malaysia, 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.

Guanacaste guide · Malaysia guide · How we score

By the numbers

Guanacaste compared with Malaysia
Guanacaste	Measure	Malaysia
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)
7 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	1
★ 4.4 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.2
$88–$289/night pp	Nightly rates	–
1 of 7	Adults-only resorts	0 of 1
Low hurricane risk	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October	Rainy season	April–October, wettest September–October
December–April, bone-dry	Sweet spot	December–March

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

Malaysia

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Guanacaste and Malaysia
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
Malaysia · high °F	90	91	91	91	89	88	88	88	87	87	87	88
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
Malaysia · rain (in)	1.4	2.0	4.1	7.4	9.1	7.0	7.8	8.5	12.8	13.5	9.2	3.5

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