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Half-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France, Strasbourg
StrasbourgHalf-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France
Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo

Photos: Strasbourg by Edoardo Colombo, Pexels License; Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Strasbourg or Tamarindo?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Strasbourg for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Strasbourg’s own page.

Choose Tamarindo for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tamarindo’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Strasbourg 10, Tamarindo 85: Tamarindo leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Strasbourg 66, Tamarindo 38: Strasbourg leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Strasbourg 70, Tamarindo 5: Strasbourg leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Strasbourg 40, Tamarindo 45: Tamarindo leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Strasbourg 62, Tamarindo 76: Tamarindo leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Strasbourg 80, Tamarindo 28: Strasbourg leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Strasbourg 66, Tamarindo 55: Strasbourg leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Strasbourg 79, Tamarindo 32: Strasbourg leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Strasbourg 52, Tamarindo 18: Strasbourg leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Strasbourg 44, Tamarindo 36: Strasbourg leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Strasbourg 56, Tamarindo 10: Strasbourg leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Strasbourg 55, Tamarindo 45: Strasbourg leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Strasbourg and Tamarindo.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Strasbourg
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Tamarindo
39match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Strasbourg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Tamarindo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Tamarindo's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Liberia.

Tamarindo has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre). Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureStrasbourgTamarindo
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation132 m27 m
Main airportStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureStrasbourgTamarindo
City population293,7717,132
People per km²3,75257
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.