Costa Rica is a tropical country, close to the equator. Although in the mountains above 2000 meters you get much cooler temperatures, the average annual temperature for most of the country lies between 22 °C and 27 °C. The coolest months are from November to January, and the warmest from March to May. The nation's climate is classically divided into two major seasons, rainy and dry. The dry season runs from January to May. Locally, the seasons were named by the early Spanish colonizers, who compared them to their own Mediterranean climate, calling the dry months "verano" or summer. The rainy runs from May to December, the grey and gloomy months "invierno" or winter. |
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