Costa Rica: Weather Records and Extremes

0 weather records set or tied in Costa Rica in 2025: 0 highs and 0 lows, with a calendar heatmap, ratio by decade and record map.

Key Facts for Costa Rica

Costa Rica has 4 stations in the data, on North America.
0 weather records were set or tied in Costa Rica in 2025: 0 record highs and 0 record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
In the 2020s, record highs outnumbered record lows 4.49 to 1 in Costa Rica.
1979 holds the most standing records in Costa Rica: 338.

Record Highs and Lows in 2025

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Each square is a day of 2025. Warm squares had more record highs than record lows in Costa Rica, cold squares more lows.

Records per Year, by Type

2000 to 2025

Records set or tied in Costa Rica each year from 2000 to 2025, stacked by record type. 2025 had 0.

Weather records per year in Costa Rica, stacked by type
Year	Highest daily maximum	Lowest daily maximum	Highest daily minimum	Lowest daily minimum	Total
2000	1	12	10	1	24
2001	0	14	12	7	33
2002	0	13	7	10	30
2003	3	6	25	0	34
2004	1	10	5	14	30
2005	0	3	1	4	8
2006	1	0	4	0	5
2007	0	2	2	5	9
2008	0	5	5	3	13
2009	3	1	9	0	13
2010	2	3	8	2	15
2011	1	4	0	3	8
2012	1	3	14	10	28
2013	5	1	13	10	29
2014	28	1	15	4	48
2015	37	0	40	5	82
2016	35	7	11	4	57
2017	15	11	21	4	51
2018	6	9	18	6	39
2019	33	1	20	6	60
2020	26	7	20	4	57
2021	6	1	6	5	18
2022	2	6	1	7	16
2023	25	4	28	3	60
2024	35	6	32	1	74
2025	5	1	14	0	20

Warm to Cold Ratio by Decade

Record highs per record low by decade in Costa Rica: 2000s 0.8 to 1, 2010s 3.4 to 1, 2020s 4.5 to 1. A ratio above 1 means more record highs than record lows.

Which Years Hold the Most Standing Records

1979: 338

Records still standing in Costa Rica, by the year they were set. 1979 holds the most with 338.

Standing records in Costa Rica by the year they were set
Year set	Standing records
1970	29
1971	39
1972	34
1973	63
1974	71
1975	59
1976	125
1977	297
1978	268
1979	338
1980	216
1981	165
1982	217
1983	204
1984	228
1985	162
1986	102
1987	296
1988	165
1989	135
1990	145
1991	111
1992	108
1993	57
1994	103
1995	125
1996	102
1997	105
1998	99
1999	85
2000	97
2001	138
2002	161
2003	95
2004	135
2005	255
2006	132
2007	121
2008	87
2009	90
2010	117
2011	72
2012	80
2013	71
2014	98
2015	167
2016	93
2017	95
2018	115
2019	108
2020	110
2021	99
2022	79
2023	140
2024	161
2025	47

Record Map for 2025

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The 0 highest significance station records of 2025 in Costa Rica, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Top Records by Significance

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Costa Rica by Year

Stations

4 with pages

Stations in Costa Rica
Station	Region	Record from	Years	Thresholds
Puerto Limon	n/a	1970	56 years	Threshold days
Juan Santamaria Intl	n/a	1973	53 years	Threshold days
Puntarenas	n/a	1973	35 years	Threshold days
Liberia	n/a	1979	47 years	Threshold days

Download the Data

Data for Costa Rica records by year and type: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.
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Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-12 (12 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-12. Last revised 12 October 2026 (2026-10-12).