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Quito, Equador
11:09:07 PMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · America/Guayaquil

Quito
Capital city of Ecuador
Hora local atual
11:09:07 PM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Fuso horário
ECT
America/Guayaquil · UTC-05:00
Próximo feriado
International Workers' Day
sexta-feira, 1 de maio de 2026 · Public
Sobreposição comercial agora
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Quito right now
Aeroporto mais próximo
UIO
Mariscal Sucre International Airport · 22 km
Aeroportos indexados
2
Curated airport references available for Equador
Snapshot at render time: 11:09:07 PM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Quito (UTC-05:00, ECT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
12°C, Light drizzle
Feels like 12°C · Humidity 99% · Wind 4 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
06:08 AM to 06:14 PM
Day length 12h 6m · Solar noon 12:11 PM
Next country holiday
International Workers' Day
sexta-feira, 1 de maio de 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Quito local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Mother's Day (US) 2026
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10 days to go
Gemini 3 Launch (rumored at Google I/O)
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12 days to go
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
politicalsexta-feira, 15 de maio de 2026
15 days to go
Gemini 3 Ultra Launch (estimated window)
keynotesexta-feira, 15 de maio de 2026
15 days to go
WHO Pandemic Agreement — Adoption at 79th WHA
politicalsegunda-feira, 18 de maio de 2026
18 days to go
Forza Horizon 6
release-gameterça-feira, 19 de maio de 2026
19 days to go
Population
2.8M
Coordinates
-0.23, -78.52
Timezone
America/Guayaquil
Aeroportos indexados
2
Capital
Quito
Languages
Spanish
Currency
USD ($)
Country area
276,841 km²
Read time for Quito from the America/Guayaquil zone (ECT, UTC-05:00); the city carries roughly 2.8M residents and ranks #1 among curated Equador entries.
Geographically, Quito is at 0.23°S, 78.52°W — that places it in the Equatorial Hemisphere's deep tropics, about 26 km from the equator, with year-round daylight that barely shifts between seasons.
Today the sun rises around 06:08 AM and sets around 06:14 PM in Quito — about 12h 6m of daylight. Equador stays on standard time here, so UTC-05:00 is stable through the year.
Pomasqui (21 km from Quito) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Equador.
On 2026-05-01, International Workers' Day is the next holiday flag for Quito — worth blocking out for launches or logistics.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
ECT
IANA Zone
America/Guayaquil
UTC Offset
UTC-05:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-05:00
Brazil, United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Panama
Other cities in this timezone
London
+6h
New York
+1h
Los Angeles
-2h
Dubai
+9h
Singapore
+13h
Tokyo
+14h
Sydney
+15h
São Paulo
+2h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Quito.
Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes.
From Quito the nearest of our reference hubs are São Paulo (~4,308 km), New York (~4,575 km), Los Angeles (~5,624 km), while Singapore sits about 19,726 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Quito sits inside Equador — the South America subregion, capital Quito, languages Spanish, currency USD ($).
Pomasqui (21 km), Machachi (32 km), Cayambe (52 km), Otavalo (59 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Quito — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Quito: International Workers' Day, The Battle of Pichincha, Declaration of Independence of Quito. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Equador.
Closest curated airport references from Quito: UIO Quito (22 km), GYE Guayaquil (262 km).
In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
Mariscal Sucre International AirportUIO
Quito · 22 km from Quito
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
José Joaquín de Olmedo International AirportGYE
Guayaquil · 262 km from Quito
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 5m
Exchange snapshot
1 USD = 0.854 EUR · 1 USD = 0.740 GBP
As of 2026-04-29
On this day
2015: A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2013: A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 05:09 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 12:09 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 09:09 PM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 08:09 AM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 12:09 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 01:09 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 02:09 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 01:09 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
Quito está no fuso horário America/Guayaquil (ECT), com um deslocamento UTC de -05:00.
Quito não está atualmente observando o Horário de Verão.
O deslocamento UTC atual para Quito é UTC-05:00.
Quito sits at 0.23°S, 78.52°W in Equador, with about 2.8M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Quito is São Paulo, about 4,308 km away as the crow flies.
Pomasqui is the closest indexed city, roughly 21 km from Quito.
Mariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO) is the closest curated airport reference, about 22 km from Quito.
International Workers' Day is the next upcoming holiday in Equador, on sexta-feira, 1 de maio de 2026.