Ecuador · 0.74°S 90.32°W · 30-year monthly averages, judged against the Tropical preset (highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, any rain except monsoon)
The best time to visit Galápagos is January to May, with highs of 28–30 °C82–86 °F and nights of 20–21 °C68–70 °F.
Galápagos is dry all year: no month averages more than 48 mm1.9 in (January), and May gets 8 mm0.3 in. February is the hottest month (highs of 30 °C86 °F) and August the coldest (25 °C77 °F).
The figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at -0.74, -90.32. This is a climate guide, not a forecast.
Pick the weather you like. Every month is then judged against it: temperature above the month names, rain below.
Good time to go for a Tropical holiday: January to May.
Open Galápagos on the interactive map ↗ the same verdicts for any place on Earth, in any month
Reading the chart. Gold means good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour shows the reason it does not. The temperature bar can be too cold or too hot; the rain bar can be too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar means that half fits but the other half does not. A gold month name means both halves fit.
What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the month's average daily high (the afternoon), judged against the preset's band (highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F for Tropical). Rain is judged by each month's class within Galápagos's own year, not by raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and at least 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month that the preset does not allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season: 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate where the wettest month has at least three times the rain of the driest. Every monsoon month is also a rainy-season month; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.
| Month | Rain | High | Low | Season | Tropical verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 481.9 | 2983 | 2068 | dry | good |
| February | 481.9 | 3085 | 2170 | dry | good |
| March | 401.6 | 3085 | 2170 | dry | good |
| April | 401.6 | 2984 | 2170 | dry | good |
| May | 80.3 | 2882 | 2068 | dry | good |
| June | 160.6 | 2780 | 1966 | dry | too cold |
| July | 80.3 | 2678 | 1864 | dry | too cold |
| August | 80.3 | 2577 | 1763 | dry | too cold |
| September | 80.3 | 2577 | 1762 | dry | too cold |
| October | 80.3 | 2678 | 1763 | dry | too cold |
| November | 80.3 | 2679 | 1864 | dry | too cold |
| December | 160.6 | 2781 | 1965 | dry | too cold |
| Looking for | Rule | Months that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers | June to December |
| Tropical | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, any rain except monsoon | January to May |
| Beach | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, dry or showers | January to May |
| Cool | highs 3–19 °C37–66 °F, any rain except monsoon | |
| Snow | highs below 3 °C37 °F, any rain |
No. Galápagos is dry all year: no month averages more than 48 mm1.9 in (January), and May gets 8 mm0.3 in.
February is the hottest month (highs of 30 °C86 °F) and August the coldest (25 °C77 °F). Annual rainfall is about 256 mm10 in.
The nearest destinations that fit the Tropical preset in the months when Galápagos does not:
The interactive map colours the whole world by how well it fits the weather you like, in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.