Latacunga climate

Name: Latacunga
Address: EC

Latacunga is warmest in September, with average highs of 18 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 8.0 °C. March is the wettest month (217 mm) and August the driest (83 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Ecuador · population 205,624 · 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 September 18 °C
Coldest month August 8.0 °C
Driest month August 83 mm
Wettest month March 217 mm
Least cloud August 83 % cloud
Hottest on record October 23 °C
Coldest on record January 2.1 °C

What to expectLatacunga through the year

Latacunga changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 17 and 18 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Rain is strongly seasonal. March averages 217 mm against 83 mm in August — 2.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	17.4 °C	157 mm	87 %
February	17.5 °C	175 mm	91 %
March	17.4 °C	217 mm	93 %
April	17.4 °C	202 mm	92 %
May	17.1 °C	157 mm	90 %
June	16.7 °C	129 mm	88 %
July	16.5 °C	120 mm	86 %
August	17.3 °C	83 mm	83 %
September	17.9 °C	97 mm	84 %
October	17.8 °C	148 mm	88 %
November	17.7 °C	168 mm	90 %
December	17.4 °C	177 mm	88 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low
January	17.4 °C	9.6 °C	12.9 °C	20.7 °C	2.1 °C
February	17.5 °C	9.7 °C	13.0 °C	21.3 °C	4.2 °C
March	17.4 °C	9.8 °C	13.0 °C	21.0 °C	5.6 °C
April	17.4 °C	9.7 °C	13.0 °C	20.4 °C	4.4 °C
May	17.1 °C	9.5 °C	12.8 °C	20.6 °C	4.9 °C
June	16.7 °C	8.8 °C	12.2 °C	19.8 °C	4.2 °C
July	16.5 °C	8.3 °C	11.8 °C	19.8 °C	3.3 °C
August	17.3 °C	8.0 °C	12.2 °C	20.6 °C	3.1 °C
September	17.9 °C	8.2 °C	12.6 °C	21.6 °C	3.6 °C
October	17.8 °C	9.0 °C	12.9 °C	22.5 °C	4.1 °C
November	17.7 °C	9.7 °C	13.2 °C	21.9 °C	4.4 °C
December	17.4 °C	9.7 °C	13.0 °C	20.6 °C	4.7 °C

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	157 mm	25	12 h/day	87 %	84 %	11 km/h
February	175 mm	25	12 h/day	91 %	85 %	11 km/h
March	217 mm	29	12 h/day	93 %	86 %	11 km/h
April	202 mm	28	12 h/day	92 %	86 %	11 km/h
May	157 mm	28	12 h/day	90 %	85 %	12 km/h
June	129 mm	24	12 h/day	88 %	83 %	13 km/h
July	120 mm	24	12 h/day	86 %	81 %	14 km/h
August	83 mm	20	12 h/day	83 %	79 %	15 km/h
September	97 mm	22	12 h/day	84 %	79 %	14 km/h
October	148 mm	26	12 h/day	88 %	82 %	11 km/h
November	168 mm	25	12 h/day	90 %	84 %	10 km/h
December	177 mm	27	12 h/day	88 %	85 %	10 km/h

How Latacunga 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
Latacunga	18 °C	8.0 °C	1,831 mm	0
Ambato · Ecuador	18 °C	7.9 °C	2,004 mm	0
Quito · Ecuador	18 °C	8.7 °C	2,876 mm	0
Riobamba · Ecuador	19 °C	8.1 °C	1,297 mm	0
Quevedo · Ecuador	27 °C	20 °C	5,786 mm	234
Santo Domingo de los Colorados · Ecuador	25 °C	19 °C	2,720 mm	105
Ibarra · Ecuador	22 °C	10.0 °C	1,609 mm	2

Where Latacunga ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in South America in February	8thof 50	17 °C
The coolest places in South America in December	9thof 50	17 °C
The coolest places in South America in March	9thof 50	17 °C
The coolest places in South America in January	11thof 50	17 °C
The coolest places in South America in November	11thof 50	18 °C
The coolest places in South America in April	12thof 50	17 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Latacunga’s climate

When is the best time to visit Latacunga?

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

How hot does Latacunga get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 18 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 23 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 8.0 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Latacunga?

March, averaging 217 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is August with 83 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,831 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 Latacunga 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.