I would like to visit costa rica in July. Is this a problem as it is the rainy season.
My wife and I want to spend 10-14 days. A few days each near a carribean beach, a pacific coast beach, and other stuff like rain forest visits. Just how rainy is the rainy. does it vary greatly between sites such as coast verses interior or by altitude?
thanks
Reply to this Hey Bob, all my trips to Costa Rica have been during the dry season so I can not speak from personal experience but in talking with some of the locals about the "Green" AKA Rainy season it sounds very much like monsoons. heavy to moderate rain all day for days in a row. Now this is coming from the pacific coast area around Manual Antonio and Quepos. The central Meseta or the Carribean side may be different.
Reply to this Hello Bob,
The rain season start at last days of may and the hardest part is on August, so july is still good time to visit Costa Rica. like Mike said the place with more rain most be Manuel Antonio, there is the real rainforest of Costa Rica and is located at the pacific side. At the caribean side the rain season is almost the opposite, from december to may. So tortuguero is one excellent option to visit and San José or the central vally "Saints valley" the rain comes from both sides so is rain all year around, no never knows.
I can suggest you good thinks to do on July in Costa Rica.
Reply to this Hi, I lived in Costa Rica for 8 years worked in the travel industy there. The Caribbean is a very rainy area all year . So it is very hard to predict there.
NW Pacific with its beautiful beaches is your best bet for less rain in July (since it rains less all year there than other parts of C Rica) Here you should get sunny mornings and if it rains it should be in the afternoons for around 3 hours. In the rainforest (esp in Monteverde) in July you will get a lot of rain ..lasting sometime all day, so i would avoid that area. So if you go into a rainforest just expect rain at least in afternoons.
Have a nice trip,
p.s. Pacific side of C Rica has much more beautiful beaches than on the Caribbean and infrastructure is so much better. Reply to this Hi,
I live in Costa Rica and have for 3 years. I live in the Pacific NW and it is often beautiful here in July.
Some call it the mini summer because it doesn't rain a lot here this month. If it does rain, it's over soon and the sun comes back out. If your wanting to explore a lot of Costa Rica, then July isn't your best month. But, if you are wanting to explore Guanacaste and several national parks, beaches, etc. then July would be excellent. It would be good to fly into Liberia versus San Jose. I hope this helps
Reply to this Thanks to all. now if I can just figure out what happened to the hotel where I thought I had reservations. Anybody know where cahuita national park hotel went?
http://cahuitahnationalparkhotel.com
Reply to this I am personally a big fan of the caribbean side. The northwest pacific side is full of gringos who are putting up condo development projects on every square mile. The almighty dollar will rule the world with no regard towards culture and peace. July is coming up on the rainy season but your best best is probably Tamagringo oops I mean Tamarindo. I am currently living in San Jose because this place offers the best cultural experince here, not everyone drives a land rover. I love staying at the
. pura vida! Reply to this Hi July is rainy season in C Rica, however a portion of it has an Indian summer when rains less. Mostly mornings are sunny for you to enjoy the beach. Please read me at world wide web costa rica learn dot com (without spaces) I have under travel a long article about costa rica weather. Have a good trip! Ann
Reply to this Help! my hotel has vanished. I made reservations to stay at cahuita national park hotel for July. Now I find no evidence of its existence. Their website is gone,
http://cahuitahnationalparkhotel.com
and the only email contact I had is not responding. I even tried contacting a third party in cahuita, but no response. I would really like to stay there, but if there is not there I need to rebook. Can anybody help me?
Reply to this On the pacific north coast there is less rain than any other part of costa rica in July. It can rain every day in the carribean, and yes, altitude can also play a part. Of all the rainy season May-Oct, July is the driest of all. That doesn't mean it won't rain some, but not all day. Because I live on the pacific north coast, it's quite nice here in July. The higher elevation can have more rain too. I'm not familiar with the carribean side, I just hear that it rains there often, daily from what I hear. What others said about the development on the pacific side is true to some degree. The further north you go, there is less development. From Tamarindo on south, it's quite developed, and north to Playas del Coco, it's starting to develop as well, but it's still predominately a fishing village.
Reply to this Hey Bob, good luck on finding out about your Hotel. We had booked a room at a hotel in Leon Fr, one time when we were driving from Paris to Nice. After a long and tense drive in pouring rain we arrived at the address and our hotel was not there. After driveing around in circles for 30 minutes I went inside the only hotel in the area and asked if they could tell me were my hotel was. The man behind the desk said "But of course you are standing in it" "But the name on the Sign outside ?... " I replied. He said "well for 1 year we have had new owners they have not had time to change the sign yes."
Reply to this Hi Bob, I hope you are getting ready for your CR trip. My husband and I spent 3 months last year from July 12 to October 10. We could pretty much tell time by the rain. 2pm seemed to be the time. It was a running joke with us. If it wasn't raining by then you can bet there'll be a mega storm that night. It was the best 3 months ever. We'd head out early in the morning, do what we wanted, then sit back and watch the weather with a couple of cervezas. Oh, be sure to pack a sturdy umbrella and flip flops. It doesn't just sprinkle with a light shower either. It rains so heavy and hard for short amounts of time, then clears again just as quickly. And you'll notice in some towns that the road side gutters are very deep. Something to see, for sure. We were lucky to have clear weather for some spectacular shows from Vulcan Arenal, too. Tortuguero on Caribbean north coast is a great place to visit and relax. Plenty of turtles on the beach. Have a great time.
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