This is the Playa Jaco Costa Rica weather page - click for main Jaco Costa Rica facts, map, tours, and nightlife page. Jump ahead to current forecast local weather in Jaco Costa Rica. The most accurate Jaco Costa Rica weather report uses conditions in Puntarenas to estimate Playa Jaco weather with temperature and precipitation predictions with a current local ten day weather forecast with highs and lows and rainfall predictions.
The climate or local weather in Jaco Costa Rica is tropical, with a rainy season weather conditions in North American summer, which Costa Ricans call winter weather, and dry season weather in North American winter, which Costa Ricans call summer weather.
Although it is north of the equator, average temperatures are cooler in most of Costa Rica in the U.S. summer because of the increased cloud cover. The weather in Jaco is seldom windy. The dry season humidity in Jaco Costa Rica is similar to California, but humidity may average 90% for the two rainiest months of the wet season for Jaco weather, when monthly rainfalls may be has high as 8 inches in Jaco Costa Rica.
Year round monthly 24 hour average temperatures fall into a very narrow range. Monthly average temperatures in Jaco Costa Rica are at their lowest in Ocotober, at around 79 degrees and their highest in March at 83. The difference between the hotter season weather and the cooler season would seem to be only four degrees, and that is true, but only for the day long average temperature in Jaco Costa Rica.
While 24 hour averages fall in a narrow range throughout the year, the highs in the dry season are noticably higher, in the 90s instead of the 80s. Downtown is very hot from 10 or 11 until 4 or 5. It is up to 10 degrees cooler on the low slopes of the jungle covered mountains surrounding Jaco Costa Rica. Its good to be in the shade at DoceLunas! We are close by the beach and recommending walking over in the morning before it gets hot on Jaco beach.
You can find out more about the beautiful beach where this weather occurs at Playa Jaco Costa Rica.
Downtown Jaco Costa Rica is fun but is also a big heat sink with lots of pavement and less vegetation and tree cover than the surrounding tree lined fields. Even without trees, it suprising how much cooler a grass field is than an area of buildings and pavement under the tropical sun. (Jaco Costa Rica is about nine degrees north of the equator.) The area outside the central strip quickly gives way to fields and then within a mile or two, to jungle covered mountains.
Jaco Hotel DoceLunas is one mile from the black sand beach in the shade over at the base of the largest of these mountains, Cerro Puntudo towering over 1,000 feet above the hotel. Consequently, we have our own Jaco weather.
The weather is much cooler here, at mid-day in dry season, as much as ten degrees cooler than the weather in downtown Jaco and Jaco beach even though we are only 100 feet higher. Partly because of the mountain, partly because we have preserved the canopy throughout the hotel so the grounds are shady, dappled with sun rather than baked, and partly because we are surrounded by fields and jungle, not pavement. You will love it.
Playa Jaco Costa Rica does not have its own local weather station to get a weather forecast from, and the national weather forecast won't tell you much abou the weather in Jaco Costa Rica, but you can get an idea of the current forecast by checking this Jaco Costa Rica weather forecast on weather underground, which uses the station in nearby Puntarenas Costa Rica, 50 km up the coast, to make an approximate Jaco weather forecast. Its a helpful approximation of Jaco Costa Rica weather, but because of the mountains and the Nicoya gulf and the nature of rainstorms, you can't be sure when it comes to predicting rain. You can get a general idea of the current weather in the area though. You can also check the weather at freemeto but they will refer you weather station in Liberia to approximate a forecast for Jaco weather.
Sometime between the first week of November and the second week of December, the weather in Jaco Costa Rica changes and the rain comes to an end. This period can be completely dry or there can be mixed clouds and sun with periods of heavy rain lasting up to day in November. The weather is warm, but not as hot as the dry season, with daytime highs usually lower than 90.
It can be very hot in the day in Playa Jaco, but at night it cools off quite a bit in Jaco. Most of the club are enclosed for noise control, so most places you go in Jaco (Monkey Bar, Vibes) will run a/c. Still, you might want to go somewhere outdoors with a roof and people in it, like Ganesha and even with fans, such places will get hot regardless of the weather. The a/c is pretty strong in vibes, so i recommend dressing for about 80 degrees. In rainy weather there are cabs in Jaco but everyone wants one, so there can be a five minute wait. Consider an umbrella.
The rainy season is the best weather in Costa Rica for rafting, which is not always available in the dry season. Otherwise, most of the tours near Jaco operate in all weather. Slogging throught the rainforest in a rainstorm is not an experience for everyone, but for some its the experience of a lifetime, so consider a wet season vacation for savings and a unique adventure, or a contemplative yoga retreat in the rain.
Whatever the weather in Jaco Costa Rica, its always cooler in the shade at Jaco Costa Rica hotel DoceLunas.