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Tamarindo in December
sweet spot busy · one of the best months to go
The year in Tamarindo
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- JanJTamarindo in January: sweet spot, busy
- FebFTamarindo in February: sweet spot, busy
- MarMTamarindo in March: avoid
- AprATamarindo in April: sweet spot
- MayMTamarindo in May: avoid
- JunJTamarindo in June: avoid
- JulJTamarindo in July: avoid
- AugATamarindo in August: avoid
- SepSTamarindo in September: avoid
- OctOTamarindo in October: avoid
- NovNTamarindo in November: ok, busy
- DecDTamarindo in December: sweet spot, busy
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 31°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 24°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 34°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 1 · 34 mm |
| Humidity | 71% |
| Sunshine | 10.7 h/day |
| Daylight | 11.5 h/day |
| Beach and sea | 30 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 28 °C, warm good |
| Crowds | 55 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Tamarindo beach town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in December
Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.
Tamarindo in pictures
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Bob Henricks from Charlottesville, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Bob Henricks from Charlottesville, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Hiram Montiel Calder…, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
- Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type A and B plugs at 120 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Costa rican colón. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution. US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Costa Rica: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Tamarindo: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
December elsewhere
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The other months at Tamarindo
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