The central valley or the plateau that surrounds San José has 1.165 m or 3.880 feet of altitude. According to a study done by the NASA, because of its location and an almost constant year round temperature of 20 C or 68 F, its climate is considered the healthiest in the planet.

Depending on the region and altitude, you can enjoy a great variety of micro-climates: green cold and rainy mountain ranges, where many milk farms have been established; rainy and tropical dry forests; the humid Caribbean coast and the dry Pacific; and the cloudy forest. Here you can find almost everything! In the highest area with an available hotel (at 3.000 m o 9.000 feet of altitude), you can see frost almost every night. This great variety of climates allows the existence of multiple animal and vegetable life forms: 9.000 plant species with flowers, 1.200 orchid species, 850 bird species, 205 mammal species and 376 reptiles and amphibian species.