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Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Tamarindo or Warsaw?

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 Tamarindo for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Warsaw for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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. Tamarindo 85, Warsaw 12: Tamarindo leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Tamarindo 38, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Tamarindo 5, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Tamarindo 45, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tamarindo 76, Warsaw 47: Tamarindo leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Tamarindo 28, Warsaw 52: Warsaw leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Tamarindo 55, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Tamarindo 32, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Tamarindo 18, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Tamarindo 36, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tamarindo 10, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tamarindo 45, Warsaw 35: Tamarindo leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tamarindo and Warsaw.

Your match

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

Tamarindo
39match

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

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTamarindoWarsaw
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyCosta Rican Colon (CRC)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation27 m118 m
Main airportDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTamarindoWarsaw
City population7,1321,862,402
People per km²573,601
Museums within 10 km0117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.