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Byron Bay vs Quito

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Bottom line

Byron Bay is the warmer of the two — about 2°F on the annual average; Quito is the wetter, with 50 in more rain a year, and Byron Bay the sunnier.

Warmer Byron Bay 2°F on the year

Wetter Quito 50 in more a year

Sunnier Byron Bay 27 pp less cloud

Colder winters Byron Bay 9°F colder nights

How the seasons compare

The differences between Byron Bay and Quito, in everyday terms.

Summers

Byron Bay has hotter summers

Byron Bay: Warm
Quito: Mild

Winters

Quito has milder winters

Byron Bay: Cool
Quito: Mild

Rain & snow

Quito is wetter

Byron Bay: Very wet
Quito: Very wet

Sky

Byron Bay is far sunnier

Byron Bay: Partly cloudy
Quito: Often grey

Month-by-month charts

Temperature

Byron Bay is the warmer of the two — about 2°F on the annual average.

Precipitation

Quito is the wetter — about 50 in more across the year.

Clear skies

Byron Bay has the clearer skies — the higher line.

Exact monthly numbers

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Avg high (°F) Varies through the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	83	83	81	77	73	68	68	71	74	77	79	82
Quito	72	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	76	74	73	72
Difference	-12	-11	-9	-5	+1	+6	+7	+6	+2	-3	-7	-10

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Byron Bay	83	83	81	77	73	68
Quito	72	71	72	73	74	75
Difference	-12	-11	-9	-5	+1	+6

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	68	71	74	77	79	82
Quito	76	77	76	74	73	72
Difference	+7	+6	+2	-3	-7	-10

Avg low (°F) Varies through the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	68	67	65	60	54	50	48	48	53	57	62	65
Quito	56	57	58	58	57	55	54	54	55	56	56	56
Difference	-11	-10	-8	-2	+3	+5	+6	+6	+2	-2	-6	-9

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Byron Bay	68	67	65	60	54	50
Quito	56	57	58	58	57	55
Difference	-11	-10	-8	-2	+3	+5

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	48	48	53	57	62	65
Quito	54	54	55	56	56	56
Difference	+6	+6	+2	-2	-6	-9

Precipitation (in) Quito runs higher most of the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	6.6	8	8.2	7.4	6.2	8.2	4.4	3.6	2.5	3.9	4.8	5.7
Quito	11.6	11.1	13.1	13	10.6	6.6	5	5.1	8.6	11.2	11.9	12.2
Difference	+5	+3.1	+4.9	+5.6	+4.4	-1.7	+0.6	+1.5	+6.1	+7.4	+7.1	+6.4

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Byron Bay	6.6	8	8.2	7.4	6.2	8.2
Quito	11.6	11.1	13.1	13	10.6	6.6
Difference	+5	+3.1	+4.9	+5.6	+4.4	-1.7

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	4.4	3.6	2.5	3.9	4.8	5.7
Quito	5	5.1	8.6	11.2	11.9	12.2
Difference	+0.6	+1.5	+6.1	+7.4	+7.1	+6.4

Cloud cover (%) Quito runs higher most of the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	60	61	58	54	52	51	44	40	41	51	58	59
Quito	81	84	88	85	81	75	72	71	75	81	81	81
Difference	+21	+23	+29	+31	+29	+24	+28	+31	+35	+30	+23	+21

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Byron Bay	60	61	58	54	52	51
Quito	81	84	88	85	81	75
Difference	+21	+23	+29	+31	+29	+24

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	44	40	41	51	58	59
Quito	72	71	75	81	81	81
Difference	+28	+31	+35	+30	+23	+21

Relative humidity (%) Quito runs higher most of the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	77	77	76	73	71	72	70	69	71	73	75	76
Quito	86	87	87	86	84	81	78	75	76	80	82	84
Difference	+9	+10	+11	+13	+13	+9	+8	+6	+5	+7	+7	+8

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Byron Bay	77	77	76	73	71	72
Quito	86	87	87	86	84	81
Difference	+9	+10	+11	+13	+13	+9

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Byron Bay	70	69	71	73	75	76
Quito	78	75	76	80	82	84
Difference	+8	+6	+5	+7	+7	+8

How both climates are changing

Both cities are warming. Each city has its own warming trend; see its trends page for the year-by-year detail. Byron Bay trends → · Quito trends →

Methodology & sources

Byron Bay

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Ballina Airport Aws, a weather station, about 21 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

Cloud, humidity, wind & sunshine — modelled estimates from NASA POWER, NASA's satellite-and-reanalysis climatology. This is the standard global source for atmospheric variables, which are not measured at most weather stations.

Quito

Temperature & precipitation — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →

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