Costa Rica vs Samoa: Annual precipitation

Costa Rica

3,314 millimeters

in 2025

Samoa

3,284 millimeters

in 2025

Costa Rica rank

8th

Samoa rank

9th

Annual precipitation over time

Costa Rica
Samoa

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 3,314 millimeters against 3,284 millimeters in Samoa, a difference of 30.14 millimeters.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 86 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Samoa ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 8th and Samoa ranks 9th of 192 countries.

Individual pages

Annual precipitation in Costa Rica
Annual precipitation in Samoa
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Annual precipitation
Unit: millimeters
Source: Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 192 places, 16,512 data points, 1940–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total annual precipitation—rain and snow—calculated as the sum of daily averages, reported as the depth of water falling to Earth's surface, excluding fog and dew.