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9–17 in Quito vs UTC
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- El Natalicio de Simón Bolívar24 Jul 2026
- Día del Primer Grito de Independencia de Quito10 Aug 2026
- Independencia de Guayaquil10 Sept 2026
- Dia de La Bandera31 Oct 2026
- Día de los Difuntos2 Nov 2026
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About Quito
Home to roughly 1,607,734 residents, Quito is a mid-sized urban centre in Ecuador. Its terrain rests around 2850 m of elevation, giving the area cooler nights than its latitude alone would suggest.
The America/Guayaquil zone governs civic time in Quito; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. The equatorial, southern-hemisphere setting at -0.18° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Quito's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Quito
The current local time in Quito, Ecuador is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Quito uses the IANA time zone America/Guayaquil, currently UTC−5.
Whether Quito observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Guayaquil) is the source of truth.
Quito is currently 1 hour behind New York.
Quito is currently 6 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Quito are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-0.1807, -78.4678).
Currency and dialing-code information is not available for this entry.
Quito sits at -0.1807° S, 78.4678° W, 2850 m above sea level, in Ecuador.