When is the best Time to Visit Costa Rica?

Costa Rica attractions are excellent in terms of tourism, which will appeal you at whatever time of year. In any case, numerous travellers may like to be in Costa Rica during the dry season, while others prefer the off-season arrangements and less-swarms throughout the stormy season.

Costa Rica's temperature is enduring all around the year, averaging between 71 and 81 degrees Fahrenheit. Higher rises are cooler than more level parts of Costa Rica. Mid-level rises are generally 5 or 10 degrees cooler, while high heights, for example, Volcanos Poas, Irazu and Chirripo (the second most elevated mountain in Central America) can plunge into 50 degrees. 

Costa Rica during the Dry Season

Costa Rica's tropical atmosphere is driest between December and April. In some northwestern parts of Costa Rica, for example, Guanacaste and Nicoya, the air dries out totally and the atmosphere gets hot and dry, to the focus that supporting agribusiness obliges watering system.

Vacation spots in those regions are exceptionally well known throughout the dry season, and can get gathered all around December and prominent school occasions like spring break. 

On the side of the Caribbean mountains, you have to watch the temporales del Atlantico during January and early February. The point when polar air pushes south over the Gulf of Mexico, it gets a great deal of water. This can bring about a few nonstop days of substantial rain in the northeast.

Costa Rica during the Green Season

Rainy season in Costa Rica falls between May and November, wherein October receives the heaviest downpour. All around that month, the drizzle is unwavering. Luckily, actually throughout the stormy season, it doesn't rain constantly. Up until late June, its normally generally sunny. Whatever is left of the time, most days will be sunny and exceptionally sticky, with several hours of evening downpour. 

The heaviest rain typically tumbles to the northeast and southwest of Costa Rica. On the Pacific drift, so much rain falls on the Osa Peninsula and Drake Bay throughout September and October that a few hotels incidentally close.

Local conditions

Getting away from the drizzle could be as basic as getting out of the country. In September and October, while the west shoreline of Costa Rica is soaked with downpour, the east Caribbean side is regularly sunny and dry. The point when the wind goes the inverse route in January and February and cuts the polar air down along the Caribbean coast, the inverse is accurate. 

All that wet climate is normally restricted to one side of Costa Rica by the spine of mountains running down the center. The Tilaran and Cordillera mountain reaches are some piece of the Continental Divide. The point when the storms begin coming in off the Pacific, the mountain reaches keep the greater part of the precipitation right to the west. The point when substantial hurricanes roll in from the Caribbean Sea, the mountains keep the drizzle from intersection the nation.

On the other hand, when you want to experience things to do in Costa Rica well-acclaimed rainforest, you are set to get wet, regardless of what time of year you go. Downpour backwoods flourish on drizzle. The higher you go in the mountains, the wetter it will be. It may be somewhat drier when you visit between December and April, yet it won't be dry. 

In the Tilaran Range, it is wet to the point that the Monteverde nature safeguard gets all its water straightforwardly from the mists. In this cloud forest, the dampness from the mists continually consolidates onto the leaves above you, so your decisions run between dribbling and doused. In the wet season, cloud backwoods get something like 10% more precipitation than easier elevation drizzle woods. In the dry season, the measure of precipitation could be multiplied.

The White-faced Capuchin Monkey of Costa Rica

When you go to a Costa Rica excursions for a rainforest walk, you will be delighted to see the Capuchin monkeys playing, hanging or just relaxing on trees. These creatures that are only native in the forests of Costa Rica are the few species of the so-called “New World Monkeys”.

Appearance

Capuchin monkeys are called white-faced monkeys because of their white-haired face. Aside from this distinct physical feature, they also have white upper chest and shoulders, black torso and a black cap of hair on their head. They are mainly seen on the lowland forests of the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. 

The body of an adult capuchin monkey can grow from 335 mm to 453 mm and can weight from about 3.9 kilograms.  Its tail grows longer than their body from up to 551 mm, male capuchin are larger than the females for around 27%. Capuchin monkey’s brain is much larger than other monkey species. 

Diet

They have the most flexible diet among other New World Monkey species. Aside from resting on trees, they spend the whole day swinging and traveling from tree to tree from the morning and rests at night. As they swing from tree to tree, finding and carrying food, they disperse seeds from the food they have making it a reason for the vast vegetative population in their habitat. They also eat insects from trees and the land which stimulates life balance in the rainforest ecosystem.

Behavior

Capuchin monkeys are diurnal and arboreal animals. Diurnal means that they do most of their activities; preying, eating and playing during the day then they sleep at night. Arboreal, is when they move from trees to trees in their habitat. However, capuchin monkeys also move and get down to the ground often compared to other New World Monkeys. Male capuchin migrates to different new social groups from the course of their lifetime and they are dominant to female capuchin monkeys.

Habitat

They are mainly found in Costa Rica, in many different kinds of forests; evergreen forests, dry or moist, deciduous forests, but more often in the secondary and mature forests. During the dry season, you’ll see them on the forests where there is a near and abundant water availability. 

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