The city's football club is Cartaginés, who have won the Costa Rican league three times. They play their home games at the Estadio José Rafael Fello Meza Ivankovich. Cartago has a borderline tropical monsoon climate ('Am') and dry winter subtropical highland climate ('Cwb'). Going with the tropical monsoon classification it has noticeably cooler weather than most places of this climate type owing to its high elevation. It has steadily warm temperatures throughout the year, with heavy rainfall in most months and a short dry season in the winter.