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Karratha vs Quito

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Bottom line

Karratha is the warmer of the two — about 9°C on the annual average; Quito is the wetter, with 2728 mm more rain a year, and Karratha the sunnier.

Warmer Karratha 9°C on the year

Wetter Quito 2728 mm more a year

Sunnier Karratha 46 pp less cloud

Winter nights About the same winter lows close to each other

How the seasons compare

The differences between Karratha and Quito, in everyday terms.

Summers

Karratha has far hotter summers

Karratha: Very hot
Quito: Mild

Winters

Winters are similar

Karratha: Mild
Quito: Mild

Rain & snow

Quito is much wetter

Karratha: Fairly dry
Quito: Very wet

Sky

Karratha is far sunnier

Karratha: Fairly sunny
Quito: Often grey

Month-by-month charts

Temperature

Karratha is the warmer of the two — about 9°C on the annual average.

Precipitation

Quito is the wetter — about 2728 mm more across the year.

Clear skies

Karratha has the clearer skies — the higher line.

Exact monthly numbers

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Avg high (°C) Karratha runs higher most of the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	36	36	36	34	30	27	27	28	31	34	35	36
Quito	22	22	22	23	23	24	24	25	25	23	23	22
Difference	-14	-14	-14	-12	-7	-3	-2	-4	-6	-11	-13	-14

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Karratha	36	36	36	34	30	27
Quito	22	22	22	23	23	24
Difference	-14	-14	-14	-12	-7	-3

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	27	28	31	34	35	36
Quito	24	25	25	23	23	22
Difference	-2	-4	-6	-11	-13	-14

Avg low (°C) Karratha runs higher most of the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	27	27	26	23	18	15	14	14	17	21	23	26
Quito	14	14	14	14	14	13	12	12	13	13	13	13
Difference	-13	-13	-12	-9	-4	-2	-2	-2	-4	-8	-10	-12

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Karratha	27	27	26	23	18	15
Quito	14	14	14	14	14	13
Difference	-13	-13	-12	-9	-4	-2

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	14	14	17	21	23	26
Quito	12	12	13	13	13	13
Difference	-2	-2	-4	-8	-10	-12

Precipitation (mm) Quito runs higher most of the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	57	89	52	16	28	42	12	3	1	0	2	16
Quito	294	281	334	329	270	166	126	129	219	286	303	309
Difference	+237	+192	+282	+314	+241	+124	+114	+126	+218	+285	+301	+293

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Karratha	57	89	52	16	28	42
Quito	294	281	334	329	270	166
Difference	+237	+192	+282	+314	+241	+124

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	12	3	1	0	2	16
Quito	126	129	219	286	303	309
Difference	+114	+126	+218	+285	+301	+293

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	47	50	41	39	39	41	30	21	18	18	21	32
Quito	81	84	88	85	81	75	72	71	75	81	81	81
Difference	+34	+34	+47	+46	+42	+34	+42	+49	+57	+63	+61	+48

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Karratha	47	50	41	39	39	41
Quito	81	84	88	85	81	75
Difference	+34	+34	+47	+46	+42	+34

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	30	21	18	18	21	32
Quito	72	71	75	81	81	81
Difference	+42	+49	+57	+63	+61	+48

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	72	74	69	63	60	61	60	60	61	61	64	69
Quito	86	87	87	86	84	81	78	75	76	80	82	84
Difference	+14	+13	+18	+23	+24	+19	+17	+15	+16	+19	+18	+15

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Karratha	72	74	69	63	60	61
Quito	86	87	87	86	84	81
Difference	+14	+13	+18	+23	+24	+19

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Karratha	60	60	61	61	64	69
Quito	78	75	76	80	82	84
Difference	+17	+15	+16	+19	+18	+15

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. Karratha trends → · Quito trends →

Methodology & sources

Karratha

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Karratha Aero, a weather station, about 8 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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