Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Latacunga
Latacunga climate by month
Oceanic · CfbBest Aug–Oct
Annual mean13°day and night
Seasonal swing1°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation814 mm261 wet days a year
0.93° S, 78.62° WElevation 2,770 mUTC−5 · Ecuador Time
When to goLatacunga · weather score
Best timeAug–Oct
October: high / low17° / 8°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Latacunga has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is September, when afternoons average 18° and nights 8°. June is the coolest month, with highs of 16° and lows of 8°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 1°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 814 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. March is the wettest month (101 mm, 26 wet days) and August the driest (27 mm, 16 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 42% in August to 62% in March.
Compared with Quito, the capital, Latacunga is 0.5° warmer on a September afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 18° · September
- Coldest nights
- 7° · August
- Wettest month
- March
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- August · 42% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 10 min
- Shortest day
- 12 h 04 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 17° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 16° | 16° | 17° | 18° | 17° | 17° | 17° |
| Average low | 9° | 9° | 9° | 9° | 9° | 8° | 8° | 7° | 8° | 8° | 9° | 9° |
| Precipitation | 65 mm | 78 mm | 101 mm | 105 mm | 77 mm | 50 mm | 33 mm | 27 mm | 46 mm | 75 mm | 80 mm | 77 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 22.9 | 22.8 | 26.1 | 25.4 | 23.8 | 20.5 | 19 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 22.9 | 22.6 | 23.2 |
| Cloud cover | 52% | 56% | 62% | 60% | 54% | 49% | 45% | 42% | 47% | 53% | 56% | 51% |
| Daylight | 12h 10 | 12h 09 | 12h 07 | 12h 05 | 12h 04 | 12h 04 | 12h 04 | 12h 05 | 12h 06 | 12h 08 | 12h 10 | 12h 10 |
| Month score | 52 | 50 | 48 | 48 | 50 | 50 | 52 | 57 | 57 | 54 | 51 | 52 |
ivMonth by month
Latacunga in every month
January52
17° / 9°
65 mm · 22.9 wet days
February50
17° / 9°
78 mm · 22.8 wet days
March48
17° / 9°
101 mm · 26.1 wet days
April48
17° / 9°
105 mm · 25.4 wet days
May50
17° / 9°
77 mm · 23.8 wet days
June50
16° / 8°
50 mm · 20.5 wet days
July52
16° / 8°
33 mm · 19 wet days
August57
17° / 7°
27 mm · 15.5 wet days
September57
18° / 8°
46 mm · 16.4 wet days
October54
17° / 8°
75 mm · 22.9 wet days
November51
17° / 9°
80 mm · 22.6 wet days
December52
17° / 9°
77 mm · 23.2 wet days