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| ⭐️ Overall score | 210 reviews |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Costa Rica |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 17 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 9 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 30°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (84%) = feels 38°C 100°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 34 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Movistar |
| 💸 1,000 CRC in USD | USD 1.62 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CRC 100,000 = USD 162 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe Tico Tamarindo |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Pangas Beach Club |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 8% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 6,900 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $11,825 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | VRBO |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Nature Air |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Nature Air |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Hospital La Católica |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,480 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,626 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,992 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $569 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $406 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $116 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,797 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $84 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (91 listings) | $3,931 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $129 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $5 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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| Feels | 10239° hot | 10038° hot | 10440° hot | 10842° scorching | 10440° hot | 10641° scorching | 10440° hot | 10440° hot | 10038° hot | 9535° hot | 10038° hot | 10038° hot |
| Real | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8630° very warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 74% | sweaty 73% | nice 69% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 93% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 91% | sweaty 94% | sweaty 97% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 83% |
| Rain | dry 3mm | dry 2mm | dry 4mm | dry 22mm | rainy 145mm | rainy 137mm | rainy 137mm | rainy 112mm | rainy 156mm | rainy 191mm | rainy 76mm | dry 27mm |
| Cloud | clear 8% | pockets 22% | pockets 29% | pockets 35% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 63% | pockets 49% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 51% | pockets 19% |
| Sun | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 2 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 3 people | 1 people | 1 people |
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