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Ambato weather

Tungurahua Province · 387,309 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:29

Rain showers
14°
Rain showers
Feels like 14°C
Wind
7 km/h
Gusts
9 km/h
Humidity
79 %
Pressure
1019 hPa
Clouds
55 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:53 Set 18:02 Day 12 h 9 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
14°13°
Feels like 14°
Wind ↑ ESE 9 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 1.7 mm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
12°9°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ SSE 5 km/h
Humidity 92 %
💧 1.6 mm
16:00
Rain showers
13°
1.1mm
ESE 9

Ambato forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.9° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
5°9°12°16°19°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed15°8°Thu 29 Oct: max 14° · min 11° · normal 9.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 17° · min 8° · normal 9.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 15° · min 9° · normal 9.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 16° · min 9° · normal 9.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 15° · min 10° · normal 9.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 17° · min 7° · normal 9.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 15° · min 8° · normal 9.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu5°12°19°17°7°04
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Ambato climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 59 towns of 20,000+ people in Ecuador, Ambato has the third lowest mean temperature.

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 13 °C in July to 16 °C in October, and the coolest nights (August) average 4 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,850 mm of rain — more than 85% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 16 °C, against a usual 16 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan15 °C6 °C170 mm
Feb15 °C6 °C182 mm
Mar15 °C6 °C226 mm
Apr15 °C6 °C195 mm
May15 °C6 °C140 mm
Jun14 °C5 °C118 mm
Jul14 °C4 °C113 mm
Aug14 °C4 °C86 mm
Sep15 °C5 °C89 mm
Oct16 °C6 °C151 mm
Nov16 °C6 °C189 mm
Dec15 °C7 °C190 mm
Whole year15 °C6 °C1,850 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 1.25° S, 78.62° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Ambato: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.56µg/m³
PM106µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Ambato

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Ambato, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Ambato yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Ambato

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 19:30 Set 07:00
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Guayaquil); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Ambato

Curious about the weather in Ambato on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Ambato weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Ambato, Tungurahua Province: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 14 °C (feels like 14 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °C to 14 °C and around 2 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations