Guanacaste vs Turkey

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

Aerial view of Concorde De Luxe Resort's distinctive white building with curved wings overlooking multiple pools, beach, and turquoise Mediterranean Sea with boats.

Guanacaste and Turkey, 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 Turkey
Guanacaste	Measure	Turkey
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6	Resorts in our catalog	21 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$88–$285/night pp	Nightly rates	$1–$1549/night pp (better)
1 of 6	Adults-only resorts	0 of 21
Low hurricane risk	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
May–November ('green season'), seriously wet September–October	Rainy season	November–February (impressively wet winters, irrelevant to summer trips)
December–April, bone-dry	Sweet spot	May–June and September–October; July–August regularly tops 90°F

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

Turkey

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Guanacaste and Turkey
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
Turkey · high °F	59	60	64	70	78	86	93	93	87	79	69	61
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
Turkey · rain (in)	9.2	6.3	3.8	1.8	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.6	2.6	7.1	10.2

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