How to Listen to Costa Rican Radio Online

Published 22 September 2026

You can stream Costa Rican radio live in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM's Costa Rica page, choose a station and press play. It is a small country with a lively dial — news and football from San José, romantic ballads, rock and jazz stations, Christian radio, and the Caribbean sound of Limón — and one of the few in Latin America where English-speaking listeners, from expats to surfers, have stations of their own.

News and talk

• Teletica Radio — the radio arm of one of the country's biggest TV networks, with news and music from San José, and the most-voted Costa Rican station in the directory.
• Radio Revolución — news and talk.
• CRC 89.1 — news, sport and talk.

Costa Rica also has stations with a long history: Radio Columbia, on air since 1947 and best known for sport and football; Radio Universidad de Costa Rica, broadcasting since 1949; and La Nacional, the public broadcaster SINART's cultural station, founded in 1978 as Radio Nacional. Not every historic station has a stream in the public directory; if one you want is missing, it can be added at radio-browser.info, and it will then appear here.

Music stations

• Hits and urbano — Urbano 106, 103 FM and Radio Hit 104.7 play reggaeton, urbano and current hits.
• Ballads and romantic music — Latin America loves a ballad, and Costa Rica has stations for little else: Azul 99.9, Amor FM 93.9, Columbia Estéreo 92.7, Radio Musical 97.5 and Elite Radio 88.5.
• Rock and alternative — IQ Radio, Tiquicia Rock and Mundo Rock Radio, plus Classics Pop & Rock for the 70s to the 90s.
• Oldies — Radio Mil Recuerdos Stereo, "a thousand memories", streams its old songs at 320kbps.
• Jazz — 95.5 Jazz, one of the few full-time jazz stations in Central America.
• Dance — Club Dance Music for house and trance.

Stations in English

Costa Rica has a large community of English speakers — North American and European residents, and many visitors — and some stations reflect it. Planet 107.5 and Nueve Cuatro Siete 94.7 play international pop, and Tamarindo Radio, from the Pacific surf town in Guanacaste, plays classic rock and oldies.

Christian radio

Radio María Costa Rica carries Catholic programming, and Faro del Caribe — on FM and AM — and Dabar are evangelical stations with a long reach across the region. The Christian radio guide covers the format more widely.

The sounds that come from here

Calypso limonense. Caribbean calypso arrived on Costa Rica's coast with Antillean workers from the 1870s, and in Limón it became a style of its own, sung in Creole English. Its best-known voice, Walter Ferguson, died in 2023 aged 103, and the style was recognised as part of the country's Afro-descendant heritage in 2012. Radio Casino 98.3 in Puerto Limón is the directory's station from that coast.

Guanacaste folk. The punto guanacasteco is the national folk dance, and Guanacaste's folk music of marimba and brass is what you hear on national holidays.

Football. Football is the national obsession, and match commentary is a radio tradition — Radio Columbia broadcast a World Cup live from the stadium in 1970, a first for Central America. Whether a match streams abroad depends on the broadcaster's rights.

Listening from abroad

Costa Rica keeps Central Standard Time — six hours behind UTC — all year, with no summer time. That makes it the same as Chicago in winter and an hour behind in summer, and a handy morning listen from Europe in the late afternoon. Expat radio covers listening to home from far away.

Sound quality

Costa Rican streams vary: Radio Mil Recuerdos at 320kbps, many music stations at 128kbps, and several at 64kbps or less, which is fine on a phone. If a stream stutters, why a radio stream buffers explains what to try.

A route in

1. Teletica Radio, for the news.
2. Azul 99.9 or Amor FM, for the ballads.
3. 95.5 Jazz, for something unexpected.
4. Radio Mil Recuerdos Stereo, for oldies in high quality.
5. Radio Casino, for the Caribbean coast.

All of them are on the Costa Rica page, free, an hour a day without an account. For the rest of the region, Guatemalan radio online and Latin radio online are good next steps.

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