Best time to visit Costa Rica

Two-week civic festival featuring bullfights in the tico style, concerts, carnival rides, and a horse parade drawing hundreds of thousands from across the country.

Indigenous Boruca ceremony reenacting the resistance against Spanish conquistadors, with carved wooden masks, traditional costumes, and ritual battles over three days in the southern highlands.

Second Boruca community holds its own version of the diablitos ritual, with masked dancers, chicha corn drink, and reenactments of the Spanish colonial conflict lasting three days.

Weeklong transformational arts and music gathering on the Pacific coast blending electronic performances, yoga, permaculture workshops, and beach camping near Marino Ballena National Park.

Colorfully painted traditional oxcarts parade through Escazu with drivers in typical dress, honoring the country's rural heritage and the UNESCO-recognized craft of oxcart painting.

Costa Rica's largest orchid exhibition displays hundreds of native and cultivated species at the Antigua Aduana, drawing horticulturists and photographers for a long weekend of judging and sales.

Holy Week brings solemn processions in Cartago and San Jose, widespread business closures Thursday and Friday, and a mass exodus to beaches as Costa Ricans take their main annual holiday.

National holiday honoring the drummer boy who died repelling filibuster William Walker in 1856, marked by parades, marching bands, and civic ceremonies in his hometown of Alajuela.

Labor Day marked by union marches in San Jose and a presidential address to the Legislative Assembly outlining the year's political agenda, with most businesses and government offices closed.

Century-old 22.5-kilometer road race climbing from the capital to Cartago's basilica, one of Latin America's oldest running events drawing elite Central American competitors and amateur pilgrims.