According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Costa Rica is May to June and November. Plan 10–14 days.
Best months for Costa Rica
- Best months
- May to June and November
- How long to stay
- 10–14 days
- Continent
- North & Central America
What Costa Rica is best for
Famous for biodiversity, Arenal volcano, Monteverde cloud forests, and Pacific surf beaches.
- Prices
- €€ · about the same as in Slovakia
Weather in Costa Rica by month
Monthly averages around San José; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 23 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| February | about 24 °C | little rain (24 mm) |
| March | about 25 °C | little rain (27 mm) |
| April | about 25 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| May best | about 24 °C | a lot of rain (213 mm) |
| June best | about 24 °C | a lot of rain (210 mm) |
| July | about 23 °C | a lot of rain (180 mm) |
| August | about 23 °C | a lot of rain (192 mm) |
| September | about 23 °C | a lot of rain (255 mm) |
| October | about 23 °C | a lot of rain (291 mm) |
| November best | about 22 °C | a lot of rain (186 mm) |
| December | about 22 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Costa Rica
- Capital
- San José
- Language
- Spanish
- Currency
- Costa Rican Colón (CRC)
- Time
- UTC−6
- Plugs
- Type A, B · 120 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +506
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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