![]() Advanced reservations may still be necessary for some of the more popular hotels, but if you want the flexibility of traveling without an itinerary set months ahead May is a good choice. May is gaining popularity for Costa Rica travelers, but it’s the beginning of the low season. Afternoon and overnight showers are common in May. The rains are more consistent on the Caribbean side of the central mountains and it’s generally wetter. Highs are in the 80’s just like most of the year. Early in the month it may be more like dry hot April with highs well into the 90’s (32-36 ☌) but once the season switches it’s more like June and a few degrees cooler.Įlsewhere in the country average temperatures are less impacted because it’s rained at least a little in April. The lowland and Pacific beach temperatures in May depend a great deal on when the rains start. A very slow moving tropical low pressure system set up off the north Pacific coast and drew rain across the central, Nicoya and Guanacaste beaches. We saw the dry season hang on until June in the drought years from 2013 to 2016 but in May 2018 heavy rains, flooding and landslides hitting particularly hard in the central mountains, San José and the normally arid beach areas of Guanacaste and Nicoya.ĭespite the El Niño which normally dries things out, May 2019 was again wetter than average. This pattern means May is a transition month and beach vacation weather isn’t guaranteed. Some rain in May, a few more rainy days through June and so on until sometime in October or November it’s pouring all the time and then suddenly it’s over in December or January. The rainy season normally comes on slowly. Typically the weather starts out dry but by late in the month rainy season weather patterns are once again prevailing. The past five years have been particularly unpredictable with record rainfall in May 2018 and almost a whole month of drizzle in 2019, after a sunny dry break in 2020 La Niña brought early and more intense rains in 2021 and stuck around to make 2022 wetter as well. We’ve marked nearly the whole country as rainier on the map, but just a little bit. May marks the transition from the dry season to the rainy season in Costa Rica and the weather is a gamble. The low season is kicking in, there are no crowds, prices are down and although the rains start in May it’s usually nothing like the downpours in September and October… What’s the Weather Like in May in Costa Rica? Best Places to See Wildlife in Costa Rica. ![]()
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