Guanacaste vs Thailand

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

Woven cabana with turquoise daybed on white sand beach at Centara Grand Beach Resort Phuket, with pool and palm trees beyond.

Guanacaste and Thailand, 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 Thailand
Guanacaste	Measure	Thailand
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)
6	Resorts in our catalog	8 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$88–$285/night pp	Nightly rates	$29–$375/night pp (better)
1 of 6	Adults-only resorts	0 of 8
Low hurricane risk	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October	Rainy season	May–October, wettest September–October
December–April, bone-dry	Sweet spot	November–April (the Gulf side, Koh Samui, runs on a different clock; wettest October–December)

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

Thailand

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Guanacaste and Thailand
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
Thailand · high °F	89	90	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
Thailand · rain (in)	1.4	1.2	2.3	4.3	13.5	8.7	10.2	10.5	15.5	12.1	7.1	3.0

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