Guanacaste vs Rhodes

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

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

Guanacaste and Rhodes, 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 Rhodes
Guanacaste	Measure	Rhodes
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)
6	Resorts in our catalog	9 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$88–$261/night pp	Nightly rates	$79–$328/night pp (better)
1 of 6	Adults-only resorts	2 of 9
Low hurricane risk	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October	Rainy season	November–February
December–April, bone-dry	Sweet spot	June and September; July–August is hottest, busiest and windiest
Liberia (LIR), Papagayo resorts 30–45 min	Airport	Rhodes Diagoras (RHO), most resorts 20–60 min down the east coast
Papagayo Peninsula, Playas del Coco, Conchal, Flamingo, Tamarindo	The coast	East for sand and calm: Faliraki, Kolymbia, Lindos, Kiotari, Lardos
Nature + beach in one trip; reliable winter sun	Best for	Value big-resort beaches, a medieval city, reliable sun

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

Rhodes

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Guanacaste and Rhodes
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
Rhodes · high °F	59	60	63	69	76	83	87	88	83	76	68	62
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
Rhodes · rain (in)	5.9	4.3	3.0	1.0	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	2.7	3.9	6.1

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