Santo Domingo de los Colorados climate

Name: Santo Domingo de los Colorados
Address: EC

Santo Domingo de los Colorados is warmest in April, with average highs of 25 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 19 °C. March is the wettest month (424 mm) and August the driest (59 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Santo Domingo de los Colorados averages 2,720 mm of rain and 105 days above 25 °C.

Ecuador · population 458,580 · 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 25 °C
Coldest month August 19 °C
Driest month August 59 mm
Wettest month March 424 mm
Least cloud July 87 % cloud
Hottest on record February 30 °C
Coldest on record July 16 °C

What to expectSanto Domingo de los Colorados through the year

Santo Domingo de los Colorados changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 24 and 25 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 105 days a year reach 25 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. March averages 424 mm against 59 mm in August — 7.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	24.2 °C	365 mm	91 %
February	24.5 °C	409 mm	93 %
March	25.0 °C	424 mm	93 %
April	25.1 °C	395 mm	92 %
May	24.9 °C	269 mm	91 %
June	24.1 °C	129 mm	89 %
July	23.7 °C	88 mm	87 %
August	23.9 °C	59 mm	88 %
September	24.2 °C	89 mm	91 %
October	24.3 °C	120 mm	94 %
November	24.4 °C	133 mm	93 %
December	24.3 °C	240 mm	91 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	24.2 °C	19.9 °C	21.6 °C	28.8 °C	17.6 °C	7
February	24.5 °C	20.1 °C	21.8 °C	29.7 °C	17.2 °C	9
March	25.0 °C	20.2 °C	22.2 °C	29.7 °C	18.3 °C	14
April	25.1 °C	20.3 °C	22.3 °C	29.7 °C	17.8 °C	14
May	24.9 °C	20.2 °C	22.2 °C	29.1 °C	18.0 °C	13
June	24.1 °C	19.5 °C	21.5 °C	28.8 °C	17.2 °C	6
July	23.7 °C	18.9 °C	21.1 °C	29.0 °C	16.4 °C	3
August	23.9 °C	18.8 °C	21.1 °C	28.4 °C	16.4 °C	4
September	24.2 °C	19.0 °C	21.4 °C	29.0 °C	16.8 °C	7
October	24.3 °C	19.2 °C	21.4 °C	28.7 °C	17.3 °C	8
November	24.4 °C	19.2 °C	21.5 °C	28.4 °C	16.8 °C	9
December	24.3 °C	19.6 °C	21.6 °C	27.9 °C	16.9 °C	9

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	365 mm	29	12 h/day	91 %	91 %	8.9 km/h
February	409 mm	27	12 h/day	93 %	90 %	8.8 km/h
March	424 mm	30	12 h/day	93 %	90 %	8.6 km/h
April	395 mm	28	12 h/day	92 %	90 %	8.5 km/h
May	269 mm	27	12 h/day	91 %	90 %	8.7 km/h
June	129 mm	22	12 h/day	89 %	90 %	9.2 km/h
July	88 mm	18	12 h/day	87 %	89 %	9.3 km/h
August	59 mm	15	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	9.4 km/h
September	89 mm	18	12 h/day	91 %	88 %	9.5 km/h
October	120 mm	22	12 h/day	94 %	88 %	9.6 km/h
November	133 mm	20	12 h/day	93 %	88 %	9.3 km/h
December	240 mm	26	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	9.0 km/h

How Santo Domingo de los Colorados 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
Santo Domingo de los Colorados	25 °C	19 °C	2,720 mm	105
Quito · Ecuador	18 °C	8.7 °C	2,876 mm	0
Quevedo · Ecuador	27 °C	20 °C	5,786 mm	234
Latacunga · Ecuador	18 °C	8.0 °C	1,831 mm	0
Ambato · Ecuador	18 °C	7.9 °C	2,004 mm	0
Ibarra · Ecuador	22 °C	10.0 °C	1,609 mm	2
Esmeraldas · Ecuador	28 °C	23 °C	2,152 mm	363

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QuestionsCommon questions about Santo Domingo de los Colorados’s climate

When is the best time to visit Santo Domingo de los Colorados?

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 August the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Santo Domingo de los Colorados get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 25 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 30 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Santo Domingo de los Colorados?

March, averaging 424 mm over 30 days with rain. The driest month is August with 59 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,720 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 Santo Domingo de los Colorados 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
Data point: -0.254°, -79.176° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
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.