Puntarenas
City in Costa Rica: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Catedral Puntarenas: Haakon S. Krohn, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Puntarenas is a city in Costa Rica, in Puntarenas Province. About 35,650 people live in the city proper, making it the 6th largest city of Costa Rica in our atlas.
It lies at 9.98° N, 84.84° W, about 1 m (3 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Costa_Rica time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Puntarenas. Green dots: other major cities of Costa Rica. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Puntarenas has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Mar, with average highs near 34°C (93°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 23°C (73°F). Around 1,517 mm (60 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Oct.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
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- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3622228 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q30687 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Catedral Puntarenas: Haakon S. Krohn, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)