Costa Rica has two major climate types: tropical and subtropical. The elevation and orientation of the land can affect precipitation with rainy, misty micro-climates next to much drier regions. Costa Rica's topography plays a great part on the weather patterns of a given location. The timing of the rainy and dry seasons varies from slope to slope of the mountain ranges that run from the northwest to the southwest and divides the country into a Caribbean slope and a Pacific slope. The climate across Costa Rica stays somewhat similar from city to city. As the elevation rises due to the landscape, the climate drops. Here is a map that shows the climate across Costa Rica:
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| This map is from http://myweb.unomaha.edu/~mkrepel/geog3000/maps.htm |
The annual range of temperature and precipitation for San Jose, it's capital city are 19 degrees F and 12.8 inches of rainfall. San Jose is located in the heart of Costa Rica. Manuel Antonio which lies on the southwest coast of Costa Rica has a range of 20 degrees F and 24 inches of rainfall. In comparison to Honolulu, both San Jose and Honolulu are somewhat similar in temperature. Honolulu's annual range of temperature is 23 degrees F. On the flip side, Honolulu doesn't rain clearly as much as San Jose as the range of Honolulu's precipitation is only 2.95 inches. San Jose's doesn't experience much seasonality as it has a distinct wet and dry season.
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