11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
8°
Feels like 8°
Wind↑ S 5 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ NE 5 km/h
Gusts12 km/h
Humidity 41 %
💧 0.3 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
9°
Feels like 9°
Wind↑ SSW 3 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ NNW 7 km/h
Humidity 40 %
💧 0.4 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ ESE 2 km/h
Humidity 92 %
💧 0.9 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ NNW 10 km/h
Humidity 57 %
💧 1.9 mm
⚡ storm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ N 3 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 7.3 mm
Quito forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +2.0° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Quito climate: what a normal year looks like
A normal year brings roughly 3,140 mm of rain — more than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 17 °C in January to 19 °C in August, and the coolest nights (August) average 10 °C.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 149 mm and 336 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (18 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
17 °C
10 °C
305 mm
Feb
17 °C
10 °C
287 mm
Mar
17 °C
10 °C
336 mm
Apr
17 °C
10 °C
330 mm
May
18 °C
10 °C
275 mm
Jun
18 °C
10 °C
181 mm
Jul
18 °C
10 °C
149 mm
Aug
19 °C
10 °C
150 mm
Sep
18 °C
10 °C
228 mm
Oct
18 °C
10 °C
285 mm
Nov
17 °C
10 °C
303 mm
Dec
17 °C
10 °C
316 mm
Whole year
18 °C
10 °C
3,140 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.23° S, 78.52° 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 Quito: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.517µg/m³
PM1017µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Quito
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Quito, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Quito yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Quito
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 19:28 Set 07:02
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Guayaquil); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Quito
Curious about the weather in Quito on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Quito weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Quito, Pichincha: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 17 °C (feels like 17 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.
Expected range today: 10 °C to 18 °C and around 4 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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