Weather Tips to Help Prepare Your Family for a Costa Rica Travel Package
Costa Rica Travel Package bookings are in record demand this year. Understandably, Costa Rica is rapidly gaining stature as a global destination at the heart of Central America. Bordering Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the East, Pacific Ocean to the west and Panama to the southeast, Costa Rica is adorned by one of the most ecstatic climates a traveler can ask for during those special family holiday seasons. If therefore you are preparing your family for a Costa Rica travel package, weather will not be a delimiting factor in having a memorable experience. The following tips will assist you in perfecting your preparations.
Family travel packages to Costa Rica are mostly naturalistic adventures undertaken outdoors. Costa Rica is endowed with bewilderingly landscapes with a wide selection of flora and fauna. The family will be able to scout through rain forests, dry tropical forests, temperate forests, marshy lowlands, volcanoes, high mountains as well as Caribbean and Pacific beaches. This means that you should pack adequate warm and cold weather clothes for the changing weather during the travel. A typical Costa Rica travel package usually transverses across regions with such varied weather patterns. You will be well advised to carry along a jacket even when the temperatures are high during morning hours.
What most people take for granted is that because of its relatively small size, Costa Rica has a singular weather pattern. To most people, the reasoning usually goes something like, How varied can the weather be in a country equal to West Virginia in size? Costa Rica enjoys perhaps the most varied climatic patterns in Central America, mainly because to its adjacency to two huge water bodies. Visitors from Canada and United States are accustomed to four predictable seasons. Yet unlike many temperate countries, Costa Rica witnesses only two annual seasons, the dry season (November to April) and the rainy season (May to November).
These two seasons are then enriched by hundreds of microclimates that are dependent on the location and geography of the region one visits. Rainfall for instance will vary not according to the rainy-dry season expectation but according to nearness to the Pacific Ocean or Caribbean Sea. The temperatures will vary primarily due to altitude (elevation) and not according to the season. You will be better advised therefore during the family Costa Rica travel package to be prepared for any weather eventuality irrespective of the season.
The good thing about Costa Rica though, is that weather never goes to the extremes. Rainfall will usually come in the form of showers with the annual precipitation averaging at 4000 mm. Temperatures range from between 210 C to 330 C. Costa Rica coastline topography especially that of the Caribbean Sea is mostly moisture-laden although dry.
It will also be advisable to check with the regional weather reports every day during the Costa Rica travel package itineraries. Check for the variations in the six weather zones of Costa Rica namely the North Pacific, the Central Valley, the Central Pacific, the Caribbean, the South Pacific and the Northern Zone. This will help you prepare the family for precise weather eventualities as you travel.