Climate and average weather in Puerto Francisco de Orellana

In Puerto Francisco de Orellana, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around March.

Best: early June to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Puerto Francisco de Orellana typically varies from 21°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 33°C. January is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Puerto Francisco de Orellana for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid February and early June to late September.

Hottest
Jan
30°
Coldest
Jul
21°
Wettest
Mar
403 mm
Driest
Jan
225 mm
Rain / yr
3779 mm
302 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
300 m
0.4°S
Clearest
Aug
72% cloud

Puerto Francisco de Orellana is city in Ecuador, capital of the Orellana Province.

Density
2,629/km²
people per km²

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Puerto Francisco de Orellana weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early June to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Puerto Francisco de Orellana, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Puerto Francisco de Orellana stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is January, with an average high of 30°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 21°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3023
Feb3023
Mar2923
Apr2922
May2922
Jun2822
Jul2821
Aug2921
Sep2922
Oct3022
Nov3022
Dec3022

How hot and cold Puerto Francisco de Orellana really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Puerto Francisco de Orellana feels like about 35°C (around October 28). About 281 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in October.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34302323
Feb34302323
Mar34292323
Apr33292222
May32292222
Jun31282222
Jul30282121
Aug32292121
Sep33292222
Oct34302222
Nov34302222
Dec34302222

Average hourly temperature in Puerto Francisco de Orellana

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on January afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 21°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Puerto Francisco de Orellana weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan30° / 23°22521.3123.7
Feb30° / 23°27821123.4
Mar29° / 23°40328.2123.0
Apr29° / 22°40327.6123.0
May29° / 22°38227.5123.2
Jun28° / 22°36626.9123.6
Jul28° / 21°31524.9124.1
Aug29° / 21°23322.7124.0
Sep29° / 22°24123.4123.5
Oct30° / 22°28926.2123.1
Nov30° / 22°32926.9123.0
Dec30° / 22°31625.6123.3

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Puerto Francisco de Orellana gets about 3779 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.3 months, from around Feb 27 to Jul 8, peaking in April at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 9.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 403 mm over about 28 wet days; January is the driest, with 225 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 2 · 93%Jan 9 · 69%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7021
Feb7621
Mar9028
Apr9228
May8928
Jun8927
Jul8025
Aug7423
Sep7823
Oct8426
Nov9027
Dec8226

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Puerto Francisco de Orellana collects about 3779 mm of rain across 302 wet days — roughly 315 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 403 mm, while January is the driest at just 225 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 31% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec225278403403382366315233241289329316
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan22521
Feb27821
Mar40328
Apr40328
May38228
Jun36627
Jul31525
Aug23323
Sep24123
Oct28926
Nov32927
Dec31626

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Puerto Francisco de Orellana, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around July 18 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around October 24. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 28% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around February 17 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around July 17. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 30 · 30%Apr 12 · 7%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2674
Feb1882
Mar991
Apr892
May1090
Jun1288
Jul1882
Aug2872
Sep2674
Oct1981
Nov1585
Dec2278

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. Close to the equator, Puerto Francisco de Orellana barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 hours of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.06:176:18
Feb12.06:226:23
Mar12.06:186:18
Apr12.06:096:08
May12.06:056:04
Jun12.06:096:07
Jul12.06:146:13
Aug12.06:136:12
Sep12.06:026:02
Oct12.05:535:53
Nov12.05:535:54
Dec12.06:036:05

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Puerto Francisco de Orellana gets about 1 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 0 and 3 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyJan 33 daysApr 100 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

Puerto Francisco de Orellana is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 100% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressive
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan27721
Feb37522
Mar07723
Apr17921
May28613
Jun3934
Jul7911
Aug4897
Sep08218
Oct07030
Nov06436
Dec17425

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Puerto Francisco de Orellana is steady company: average speeds sit near 3 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJan 14 · 4 km/hAug 23 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar3calm
Apr3calm
May3calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov3calm
Dec3calm

Best time to visit Puerto Francisco de Orellana

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Puerto Francisco de Orellana throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid September, Puerto Francisco de Orellana is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Puerto Francisco de Orellana for general outdoor tourist activities run from early June to late September and again from late December to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 25 · 4.2

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan3.6fair
Feb3.4poor
Mar3.0poor
Apr3.0poor
May3.2poor
Jun3.6fair
Jul4.1fair
Aug4.0fair
Sep3.5poor
Oct3.1poor
Nov3.0poor
Dec3.3poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Puerto Francisco de Orellana for hot-weather activities run from late April to late May and again from late June to mid March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 8 · 5.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Puerto Francisco de Orellana, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Puerto Francisco de Orellana packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Puerto Francisco de Orellana sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 21 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Puerto Francisco de Orellana by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Puerto Francisco de Orellana peaks around February 15 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near August 13 at about 10 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeFeb 15UV 14Aug 13UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr10Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Puerto Francisco de Orellana

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan86.5
Feb86.5
Mar86.5
Apr7.55.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Puerto Francisco de Orellana by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Puerto Francisco de Orellana is worst in February — around 22 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (July, 10 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateFeb 1922 µg/m³Jul 1710 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan17Moderate
Feb22Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun12Good
Jul10Good
Aug12Good
Sep14Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov16Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Puerto Francisco de Orellana is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Puerto Francisco de Orellana banks about 5,691 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan500
Feb452
Mar494
Apr473
May480
Jun440
Jul446
Aug464
Sep470
Oct497
Nov479
Dec495

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Puerto Francisco de Orellana receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.5 and 5.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around Aug 14 to Mar 30. The brightest month is September, averaging about 5.1 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.6 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the September peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightSep 285.2 kWhJun 233.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb4.8Bright
Mar4.5Bright
Apr4.3Bright
May3.9Moderate
Jun3.5Moderate
Jul3.7Moderate
Aug4.6Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Puerto Francisco de Orellana?

Puerto Francisco de Orellana sits at 0.4°S, 77.0°W, 300 m above sea level, in Ecuador. The nearest listed city is Boca Suno, 32 km away.

TenaPuerto AsísOritoCayambeIbarraIpiales

Topography around Puerto Francisco de Orellana

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Puerto Francisco de Orellana.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Puerto Francisco de Orellana has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 59 m around an average of 258 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 111 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,554 m.

The land around Puerto Francisco de Orellana is covered by trees (48%) and artificial surfaces (27%) within 3 km, trees (88%) within 16 km, and trees (97%) within 80 km.

3 km
59 m
16 km
111 m
80 km
3,554 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Boca Suno 32 km · Nueva Loja 61 km · Tena 109 km · Puerto Asís 120 km · Orito 125 km · Cayambe 139 km · Ibarra 154 km · Ipiales 159 km

Ecuador travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 43% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$7,125
2025
Happiness
6.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
70%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
45.7
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
20.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 466
Religion
Roman Catholic 68%Protestant 19%none 8%other 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Puerto Francisco de Orellana (-0.4497°, -76.9972°, elevation 300 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).