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Costa Rica fresh produce export calendar

Costa Rica ships pineapples and bananas every week of the year. What the programmes mean for planning, and when melon and papaya have a window.

Load ports
Moín and Caldera
Produce covered
Pineapple Banana Melon Papaya
Lanes out of here
Costa Rica → Rotterdam
Costa Rica fresh produce export calendar: which produce ships in which month.
Produce January February March April May June July August September October November December
Pineapple January: Peak February: Peak March: Peak April: Peak May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Peak September: Peak October: Peak November: Peak December: Peak
Banana January: Peak February: Peak March: Peak April: Peak May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Peak September: Peak October: Peak November: Peak December: Peak
Melon January: Peak February: Peak March: Peak April: Shoulder May: Not shipping June: Not shipping July: Not shipping August: Not shipping September: Not shipping October: Not shipping November: Shoulder December: Peak
Papaya January: Peak February: Peak March: Peak April: Peak May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Peak September: Peak October: Peak November: Peak December: Peak
Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

Last reviewed August 2026. Windows are editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule, and they are export weeks out of Costa Rica rather than arrival weeks in your market.

Costa Rica is the world’s largest pineapple exporter by a wide margin, and pineapple is the whole character of the calendar below. Like bananas it ships every week of the year against standing programmes rather than a harvest window, so the useful questions are about arrival rhythm and container condition rather than about seasons.

Nearly everything leaves through Moín on the Caribbean side, which is the short way to Europe and to the US East Coast. Caldera on the Pacific serves the smaller Asian trade. The one genuinely seasonal thing here is melon, which runs through the Northern Hemisphere winter and is the reason a Costa Rican programme looks different in January than in July.

Pineapple

Ships year-round Varieties: MD2

Every week of the year. Costa Rica is the largest pineapple exporter in the world by a wide margin, and MD2 out of the Caribbean lowlands is what most of Europe eats.

Costa Rica pineapple: window and arrival weeks · Pineapple across every origin

Banana

Ships year-round Varieties: Cavendish

Year-round out of Moín, on standing programmes. Costa Rica has among the most consistent banana quality of any origin and prices accordingly.

Costa Rica banana: window and arrival weeks · Banana across every origin

Melon

December–March peak · April, November shoulder Varieties: Cantaloupe, Honeydew

Roughly December to April, out of Guanacaste, grown for the North American and European winter. This is the one genuinely seasonal thing on the Costa Rican calendar.

Costa Rica melon: window and arrival weeks · Melon across every origin

Papaya

Ships year-round

Year-round, at modest volume. Costa Rican papaya mostly serves North America, where the short lane makes the fruit’s narrow transit tolerance manageable.

Costa Rica papaya: window and arrival weeks · Papaya across every origin

FAQ

What fresh produce does Costa Rica export?
Costa Rica ships pineapples, bananas, melons, and papayas. The calendar on this page gives each one's export window month by month.
When does Costa Rica export melons?
Costa Rica ships melons December–March, with April and November at the shoulders. These are export weeks out of the origin, not arrival weeks in your market.
Which ports does Costa Rica export fresh produce from?
Moín and Caldera. The load port is worth knowing because the lane's transit — and so the shelf life left on arrival — is measured from it.

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