Best time to visit Santo Domingo de los Colorados

Month-by-month weather averages for Santo Domingo de los Colorados.

Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, Ecuador

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  • Made good or best by an event
Average daily high and low temperature, average precipitation and each month's verdict
MonthAverage daily highAverage daily lowPrecipitationVerdict
January27.1 °C / 81 °F21.3 °C / 70 °F370 mm / 14.6 inneither best nor good
February27.4 °C / 81 °F21.6 °C / 71 °F416 mm / 16.4 inneither best nor good
March27.9 °C / 82 °F21.7 °C / 71 °F411 mm / 16.2 inneither best nor good
April28.1 °C / 83 °F21.8 °C / 71 °F373 mm / 14.7 inneither best nor good
May27.9 °C / 82 °F21.6 °C / 71 °F204 mm / 8 inneither best nor good
June27.1 °C / 81 °F20.9 °C / 70 °F99 mm / 3.9 inneither best nor good
July26.7 °C / 80 °F20.4 °C / 69 °F70 mm / 2.8 ingood month
August27 °C / 81 °F20.2 °C / 68 °F45 mm / 1.8 ingood month
September27.5 °C / 82 °F20.4 °C / 69 °F62 mm / 2.5 ingood month
October27.6 °C / 82 °F20.6 °C / 69 °F91 mm / 3.6 inneither best nor good
November27.7 °C / 82 °F20.7 °C / 69 °F90 mm / 3.5 inneither best nor good
December27.5 °C / 82 °F21.2 °C / 70 °F194 mm / 7.6 inneither best nor good
Good and best months depend on more than temperature, rain and events. How they are chosen

Each activity on this page has its own good and best months, rated on twenty years of daily weather records. Which measures count, and how much, depends on the activity: humidity for exploring outdoors, wind for the beach, hiking and skiing, snow for skiing alone. Between them, the activities are rated on:

  • Daytime highs
  • Night-time lows
  • How warm it feels
  • Humidity
  • How much of the day is sunny
  • Hours of daylight
  • Monthly rainfall
  • How many days it rains
  • Days of heavy rain
  • Wind
  • Snowfall and days with snow
  • Major events, such as festivals

The chart shows the good and best months for exploring outdoors.

The event icon marks a month that an event lifts to good or best, such as a festival or a natural spectacle. Choose “Weather only” in the toolbar to rate the months on weather alone.

Best months by activity

Exploring outdoors

Mild days and nights, mostly dry and bright. The default for 'when should I go'.

  1. JJanuary: neither
  2. FFebruary: neither
  3. MMarch: neither
  4. AApril: neither
  5. MMay: neither
  6. JJune: neither
  7. JJuly: good
  8. AAugust: good
  9. SSeptember: good
  10. OOctober: neither
  11. NNovember: neither
  12. DDecember: neither
Good
July–September
Why these months
  • July · good

    In its favour: share of daylight that is sunny 65%, precipitation 70 mm / 2.8 in, average daily high 26.7 °C / 80 °F, days with heavy rain 0.8 days, average daily low 20.4 °C / 69 °F.

    Against: feels like (high) 30.5 °C / 87 °F, wet days 16.9 days, relative humidity 86%.

  • August · good

    In its favour: precipitation 45 mm / 1.8 in, share of daylight that is sunny 64%, average daily high 27 °C / 81 °F, days with heavy rain 0.5 days, average daily low 20.2 °C / 68 °F.

    Against: feels like (high) 30.6 °C / 87 °F, wet days 13.6 days, relative humidity 84%.

  • September · good

    In its favour: share of daylight that is sunny 62%, precipitation 62 mm / 2.5 in, average daily high 27.5 °C / 82 °F, days with heavy rain 0.5 days, average daily low 20.4 °C / 69 °F.

    Against: feels like (high) 31.3 °C / 88 °F, wet days 16.4 days, relative humidity 83%.

An activity is listed only where it applies: skiing at ski destinations, beach and swimming at beach destinations. The nearest ski area is Portillo, 3744 km away.

Weather averages

Monthly averages over twenty years, 2006–2025. Highs, lows and precipitation are in the chart at the top.

  JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels like (high) 31.6 °C32.2 °C33 °C33.1 °C32.6 °C31.2 °C30.5 °C30.6 °C31.3 °C31.3 °C31.4 °C31.5 °C
Days with heavy rain 12.8 days14.4 days14.3 days13.1 days6.2 days1.9 days0.8 days0.5 days0.5 days1.6 days2 days5.5 days
Time rain usually falls 5 am5 pm1 pm1 pm3 pm2 pm2 pm1 pm1 pm2 am3 am4 am
Sunshine per day 7.2 h7 h7.3 h7.8 h8.1 h7.8 h7.9 h7.8 h7.6 h7.3 h7.9 h7.6 h
Relative humidity 88%89%88%88%88%88%86%84%83%84%83%85%

Air quality

Averaged over a shorter period (2022–2025) than the twenty-year averages above, and not counted towards good or best months.

  JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Air pollution (PM2.5) 2022–20258.6 µg/m³7.3 µg/m³9 µg/m³8.8 µg/m³9.7 µg/m³11.5 µg/m³11.9 µg/m³12 µg/m³13.1 µg/m³11 µg/m³15.1 µg/m³14 µg/m³
Air pollution (PM2.5, daily peak) 2022–202514.8 µg/m³12.6 µg/m³14.6 µg/m³14.2 µg/m³16.2 µg/m³18.9 µg/m³19.8 µg/m³19.1 µg/m³20 µg/m³17.3 µg/m³23.6 µg/m³22.6 µg/m³
  • Good 15 µg/m³ or less
  • Fair 15 to 25 µg/m³
  • Moderate 25 to 37.5 µg/m³
  • Poor 37.5 to 50 µg/m³
  • Very poor 50 to 75 µg/m³
  • Extremely poor over 75 µg/m³

Each figure is compared with the World Health Organization's guideline for a day's air, 15 µg/m³ or less, and with its interim targets above that. The words are ours: the WHO does not name its steps. The figures are modelled monthly averages, so single days can be well above them. The daily peak is the average of each day's highest hour, shaded on the same scale.

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Monthly averages over 2006–2025, unless stated otherwise.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC-BY 4.0), generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information (ERA5). City data from GeoNames (CC-BY 4.0). Air quality from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and sea temperature from Météo-France / Copernicus Marine, both via Open-Meteo.com. Coastline from Natural Earth. Ski areas from OpenSkiMap.org, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Skimap.org. World Heritage sites from Wikidata (CC0), from the World Heritage List © UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Readership from Wikimedia pageview data (CC0). Destination classification derived from English Wikivoyage, © Wikivoyage contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).