Climate and average weather in Rosa Zarate

In Rosa Zarate, 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 February.

Best: mid June to early December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Rosa Zarate typically varies from 21°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 32°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Rosa Zarate for warm-weather activities is from mid June to early December.

Hottest
Apr
29°
Coldest
Jul
21°
Wettest
Feb
338 mm
Driest
Aug
40 mm
Rain / yr
1937 mm
242 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
88 m
0.3°N
Clearest
Jan
89% cloud

Rosa Zarate 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 mid June to early December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Rosa Zarate stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 29°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.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2922
Feb2922
Mar2922
Apr2923
May2922
Jun2822
Jul2821
Aug2821
Sep2921
Oct2922
Nov2922
Dec2922

How hot and cold Rosa Zarate 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, Rosa Zarate feels like about 33°C (around May 6). About 109 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32292222
Feb32292222
Mar33292222
Apr33292323
May33292222
Jun31282222
Jul30282121
Aug30282121
Sep31292121
Oct31292222
Nov32292222
Dec32292222

Average hourly temperature in Rosa Zarate

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 April afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 21°C.

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

Rosa Zarate 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
Jan29° / 22°29428.5123.2
Feb29° / 22°33826.4123.0
Mar29° / 22°31929.1122.9
Apr29° / 23°27627.7122.9
May29° / 22°18025.6123.2
Jun28° / 22°8217.8124.3
Jul28° / 21°5514.6124.8
Aug28° / 21°4011.1125.1
Sep29° / 21°4612124.7
Oct29° / 22°6513.6124.4
Nov29° / 22°8814.2124.3
Dec29° / 22°15521.6123.8

Chance of rain

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

Rosa Zarate gets about 1937 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 5.7 months, from around Dec 14 to Jun 6, peaking in February at about 97% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 21.

February is the wettest month by volume, with 338 mm over about 26 wet days; August is the driest, with 40 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 4 · 97%Aug 21 · 34%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan9129
Feb9526
Mar9329
Apr9228
May8326
Jun5918
Jul4715
Aug3611
Sep4012
Oct4414
Nov4814
Dec6922

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Rosa Zarate collects about 1937 mm of rain across 242 wet days — roughly 161 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. February is the wettest month with 338 mm, while August is the driest at just 40 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec294338319276180825540466588155
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan29429
Feb33826
Mar31929
Apr27628
May18026
Jun8218
Jul5515
Aug4011
Sep4612
Oct6514
Nov8814
Dec15522

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Rosa Zarate, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows mild seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 10 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around May 5. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 2% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 6 and lasts for 1.0 months, ending around June 5. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 100% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 24 · 2%May 20 · 0%mostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan199
Feb199
Mar199
Apr199
May0100
Jun199
Jul199
Aug199
Sep0100
Oct199
Nov298
Dec199

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, Rosa Zarate 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)
Jan12.06:286:27
Feb12.06:336:32
Mar12.06:286:27
Apr12.06:186:18
May12.06:146:15
Jun12.06:186:19
Jul12.06:236:24
Aug12.06:226:22
Sep12.06:126:12
Oct12.06:036:03
Nov12.06:046:03
Dec12.06:156:13

Sunny days

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

Rosa Zarate gets about 0 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 0 and 0 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyNov 300 daysJan 10 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec0Gloomy

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.

Rosa Zarate 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan08894
Feb02908
Mar008910
Apr008812
May018810
Jun014851
Jul040590
Aug061390
Sep064360
Oct163370
Nov257411
Dec031662

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 Rosa Zarate is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmOct 18 · 6 km/hMar 28 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Rosa Zarate

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Rosa Zarate's monsoon runs December–May, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Rosa Zarate

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Rosa Zarate 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 time of year to visit Rosa Zarate for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to early December, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 7 · 5.1

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
Jan3.2poor
Feb2.9poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr2.9poor
May3.3poor
Jun4.3fair
Jul4.8fair
Aug5.1fair
Sep4.7fair
Oct4.4fair
Nov4.3fair
Dec3.8fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Rosa Zarate for hot-weather activities is from mid June to mid December, with a peak score in the last week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 24 · 6.2

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 Rosa Zarate, 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.

Rosa Zarate packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Rosa Zarate sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. About 28 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Rosa Zarate 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 Rosa Zarate peaks around March 10 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 19 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 10UV 15Jul 19UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Rosa Zarate

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 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
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Rosa Zarate 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 Rosa Zarate is worst in November — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (July, 13 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateNov 1724 µg/m³Jul 1713 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb17Moderate
Mar20Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Rosa Zarate 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. Rosa Zarate banks about 5,604 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan474
Feb433
Mar490
Apr477
May490
Jun453
Jul457
Aug458
Sep453
Oct477
Nov463
Dec479

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.

Rosa Zarate receives about 3.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — moderate — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 3.3 and 4.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightMar 224.3 kWhJul 83.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.5Moderate
Feb3.9Moderate
Mar4.2Bright
Apr4.1Bright
May3.8Moderate
Jun3.4Moderate
Jul3.3Moderate
Aug3.4Moderate
Sep3.5Moderate
Oct3.5Moderate
Nov3.6Moderate
Dec3.5Moderate

Where is Rosa Zarate?

Rosa Zarate sits at 0.3°N, 79.5°W, 88 m above sea level, in Ecuador. The nearest listed city is Santo Domingo de los Colorados, 73 km away.

PomasquiQuitoSan Lorenzo de EsmeraldasChoneOtavalo

Topography around Rosa Zarate

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Rosa Zarate.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Rosa Zarate has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 88 m around an average of 104 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 365 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,757 m.

The land around Rosa Zarate is covered by trees (62%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, trees (80%) within 16 km, and trees (81%) within 80 km.

3 km
88 m
16 km
365 m
80 km
2,757 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Santo Domingo de los Colorados 73 km · Esmeraldas 73 km · Mindo 88 km · Pomasqui 121 km · Quito 122 km · San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas 128 km · Chone 133 km · Otavalo 135 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 Rosa Zarate (0.3278°, -79.4741°, elevation 88 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).