Esmeraldas climate

Name: Esmeraldas
Address: EC

Esmeraldas is warmest in April, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in September, when nights average 23 °C. February is the wettest month (286 mm) and October the driest (90 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Esmeraldas averages 2,152 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Ecuador · population 218,727 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month April 28 °C
Coldest month September 23 °C
Driest month October 90 mm
Wettest month February 286 mm
Least cloud December 84 % cloud
Hottest on record April 31 °C
Coldest on record August 20 °C
Warmest sea May 27 °C

What to expectEsmeraldas through the year

Esmeraldas changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 and 28 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 3 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. February averages 286 mm against 90 mm in October — 3.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Esmeraldas is warmest in May at 27 °C and coldest in January at 26 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.4 °C	280 mm	86 %
February	27.7 °C	286 mm	88 %
March	28.1 °C	273 mm	88 %
April	28.2 °C	262 mm	86 %
May	28.0 °C	209 mm	89 %
June	27.6 °C	156 mm	88 %
July	27.3 °C	138 mm	87 %
August	27.5 °C	103 mm	88 %
September	27.5 °C	98 mm	90 %
October	27.6 °C	90 mm	89 %
November	27.7 °C	96 mm	87 %
December	27.7 °C	163 mm	84 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.4 °C	23.5 °C	25.0 °C	30.7 °C	21.3 °C	31	0
February	27.7 °C	23.6 °C	25.2 °C	30.8 °C	21.3 °C	28	0
March	28.1 °C	23.8 °C	25.5 °C	30.7 °C	21.7 °C	31	0
April	28.2 °C	23.8 °C	25.6 °C	31.2 °C	21.0 °C	30	1
May	28.0 °C	23.9 °C	25.5 °C	31.0 °C	22.1 °C	31	0
June	27.6 °C	23.4 °C	25.0 °C	30.4 °C	21.0 °C	30	0
July	27.3 °C	23.0 °C	24.7 °C	29.6 °C	20.4 °C	31	0
August	27.5 °C	22.8 °C	24.6 °C	30.0 °C	20.2 °C	31	0
September	27.5 °C	22.7 °C	24.6 °C	30.4 °C	20.5 °C	30	0
October	27.6 °C	22.9 °C	24.7 °C	30.8 °C	20.8 °C	31	0
November	27.7 °C	22.8 °C	24.7 °C	30.7 °C	20.2 °C	30	0
December	27.7 °C	23.2 °C	24.9 °C	30.7 °C	21.1 °C	31	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	280 mm	26	12 h/day	86 %	87 %	13 km/h	26.3 °C
February	286 mm	24	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	12 km/h	26.6 °C
March	273 mm	25	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	11 km/h	26.8 °C
April	262 mm	24	12 h/day	86 %	87 %	12 km/h	27.1 °C
May	209 mm	24	12 h/day	89 %	86 %	13 km/h	27.3 °C
June	156 mm	19	12 h/day	88 %	85 %	14 km/h	27.1 °C
July	138 mm	17	12 h/day	87 %	84 %	14 km/h	26.8 °C
August	103 mm	15	12 h/day	88 %	82 %	15 km/h	26.5 °C
September	98 mm	15	12 h/day	90 %	82 %	15 km/h	26.5 °C
October	90 mm	14	12 h/day	89 %	82 %	15 km/h	26.5 °C
November	96 mm	13	12 h/day	87 %	82 %	15 km/h	26.4 °C
December	163 mm	18	12 h/day	84 %	83 %	14 km/h	26.3 °C

How Esmeraldas compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Esmeraldas	28 °C	23 °C	2,152 mm	363
Santo Domingo de los Colorados · Ecuador	25 °C	19 °C	2,720 mm	105
Quito · Ecuador	18 °C	8.7 °C	2,876 mm	0
Ibarra · Ecuador	22 °C	10.0 °C	1,609 mm	2
Quevedo · Ecuador	27 °C	20 °C	5,786 mm	234
Latacunga · Ecuador	18 °C	8.0 °C	1,831 mm	0
Portoviejo · Ecuador	30 °C	21 °C	1,054 mm	361

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Esmeraldas.

QuestionsCommon questions about Esmeraldas’s climate

When is the best time to visit Esmeraldas?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. July, August, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, April is the warmest month and October the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Esmeraldas get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 3 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in September, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Esmeraldas?

February, averaging 286 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is October with 90 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,152 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Esmeraldas rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.