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Cartagena vs Quito

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Comparing Cartagena change · Quito change

Bottom line

Cartagena is the warmer of the two — about 19°F on the annual average; Quito is the wetter, with 85 in more rain a year, and Cartagena the sunnier.

Warmer Cartagena 19°F on the year

Wetter Quito 85 in more a year

Sunnier Cartagena 18 pp less cloud

Colder winters Quito 19°F colder nights

How the seasons compare

The differences between Cartagena and Quito, in everyday terms.

Summers

Cartagena has much hotter summers

Cartagena: Hot
Quito: Mild

Winters

Cartagena has much milder winters

Cartagena: Stays warm
Quito: Mild

Rain & snow

Quito is much wetter

Cartagena: Moderate rainfall
Quito: Very wet

Sky

Cartagena is sunnier

Cartagena: Partly cloudy
Quito: Often grey

Month-by-month charts

Temperature

Cartagena is the warmer of the two — about 19°F on the annual average.

Precipitation

Quito is the wetter — about 85 in more across the year.

Clear skies

Cartagena has the clearer skies — the higher line.

Exact monthly numbers

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Avg high (°F) Cartagena runs higher most of the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	88	88	88	89	89	90	90	90	90	89	89	89
Quito	72	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	76	74	73	72
Difference	-16	-16	-16	-16	-16	-15	-14	-13	-13	-15	-16	-17

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Cartagena	88	88	88	89	89	90
Quito	72	71	72	73	74	75
Difference	-16	-16	-16	-16	-16	-15

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	90	90	90	89	89	89
Quito	76	77	76	74	73	72
Difference	-14	-13	-13	-15	-16	-17

Avg low (°F) Cartagena runs higher most of the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	75	76	77	78	79	79	78	79	78	78	78	77
Quito	56	57	58	58	57	55	54	54	55	56	56	56
Difference	-19	-18	-19	-21	-22	-24	-24	-25	-24	-22	-22	-21

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Cartagena	75	76	77	78	79	79
Quito	56	57	58	58	57	55
Difference	-19	-18	-19	-21	-22	-24

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	78	79	78	78	78	77
Quito	54	54	55	56	56	56
Difference	-24	-25	-24	-22	-22	-21

Precipitation (in) Quito runs higher most of the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.7	4.2	3.6	3.5	3.7	3.7	7.3	5.6	2
Quito	11.6	11.1	13.1	13	10.6	6.6	5	5.1	8.6	11.2	11.9	12.2
Difference	+11.2	+10.7	+13.1	+12.2	+6.4	+3	+1.5	+1.4	+4.9	+3.9	+6.3	+10.1

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Cartagena	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.7	4.2	3.6
Quito	11.6	11.1	13.1	13	10.6	6.6
Difference	+11.2	+10.7	+13.1	+12.2	+6.4	+3

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	3.5	3.7	3.7	7.3	5.6	2
Quito	5	5.1	8.6	11.2	11.9	12.2
Difference	+1.5	+1.4	+4.9	+3.9	+6.3	+10.1

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	32	38	49	65	75	72	70	74	79	78	65	42
Quito	81	84	88	85	81	75	72	71	75	81	81	81
Difference	+49	+46	+39	+20	+6	+3	+2	-3	-3	+3	+16	+39

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Cartagena	32	38	49	65	75	72
Quito	81	84	88	85	81	75
Difference	+49	+46	+39	+20	+6	+3

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	70	74	79	78	65	42
Quito	72	71	75	81	81	81
Difference	+2	-3	-3	+3	+16	+39

Relative humidity (%) Varies through the year

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	78	75	75	78	81	81	81	82	82	83	82	81
Quito	86	87	87	86	84	81	78	75	76	80	82	84
Difference	+8	+12	+12	+9	+3	-1	-4	-7	-6	-2	—	+4

Jan – Jun	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Cartagena	78	75	75	78	81	81
Quito	86	87	87	86	84	81
Difference	+8	+12	+12	+9	+3	-1

Jul – Dec	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cartagena	81	82	82	83	82	81
Quito	78	75	76	80	82	84
Difference	-4	-7	-6	-2	—	+4

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. Cartagena trends → · Quito trends →

Methodology & sources

Cartagena

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 29 years of daily observations at Rafael Nunez, a weather station, about 5 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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