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Best time to visit Baños
Ecuador · Latin America
All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.
The year in Baños
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- JanJBaños in January: avoid
- FebFBaños in February: avoid
- MarMBaños in March: avoid
- AprABaños in April: sweet spot
- MayMBaños in May: avoid
- JunJBaños in June: avoid
- JulJBaños in July: avoid
- AugABaños in August: avoid
- SepSBaños in September: sweet spot
- OctOBaños in October: sweet spot
- NovNBaños in November: ok, busy
- DecDBaños in December: avoid
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
No dry season: more than 6 rainy days in every month.
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Things to do in Baños
- Chimborazo Volcano and highest mountain in Ecuador
- Tungurahua With its crater at 5023 m (16,480 ft) this active volcano provides strenuous hikes just south of Baños.
- El Altar volcano Volcano in Ecuador
- Carihuairazo volcano Volcano in Ecuador
- Agoyán Ecuadorian waterfall
Tours and tickets in Baños
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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Baños), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.
Month by month
| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Humidity | Sun h/day | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 21° | 27d | 91% | 9.3h | avoid | monsoon: 27 rainy days, 259mm |
| Feb | 21° | 24d | 91% | 9.5h | avoid | monsoon: 24 rainy days, 208mm |
| Mar | 21° | 24d | 90% | 9.0h | avoid | monsoon: 24 rainy days, 185mm |
| Apr | 21° | 22d | 90% | 9.4h | sweet spot | 21C max, 22 rainy days |
| May | 21° | 25d | 91% | 8.9h | avoid | monsoon: 25 rainy days, 257mm |
| Jun | 20° | 26d | 92% | 8.7h | avoid | monsoon: 26 rainy days, 316mm |
| Jul | 19° | 28d | 92% | 8.4h | avoid | monsoon: 28 rainy days, 389mm |
| Aug | 20° | 24d | 89% | 9.5h | avoid | monsoon: 24 rainy days, 252mm |
| Sep | 21° | 20d | 88% | 10.1h | sweet spot | 21C max, 20 rainy days |
| Oct | 21° | 21d | 88% | 10.2h | sweet spot | 21C max, 21 rainy days |
| Nov | 21° | 21d | 88% | 10.0h | okbusy | busier than usual |
| Dec | 21° | 26d | 90% | 10.1h | avoid | monsoon: 26 rainy days, 217mm |
Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.
Weather read at Baños town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
How busy it gets
Then and now
No month in Baños is clearly warmer than in 1981–1990: the differences are inside the ordinary spread between one year and the next.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981–90 | 21.8° | 22.0° | 22.3° | 22.2° | 21.6° | 20.7° | 20.1° | 20.9° | 21.5° | 22.1° | 22.3° | 22.0° |
| 2017–26 | 20.9° | 21.1° | 21.4° | 21.1° | 20.6° | 19.9° | 19.3° | 20.0° | 20.8° | 21.1° | 21.5° | 21.3° |
| Change | -0.9° | -0.8° | -0.9° | -1.1° | -1.0° | -0.8° | -0.8° | -0.9° | -0.7° | -1.0° | -0.9° | -0.7° |
The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.
Getting there
Fly into Quito (UIO), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Quito.
The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.
How far Baños is depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.
- from Bogota
- from Lima
- from Miami
- from Fort Lauderdale
- from Mexico City
- from Tampa
- from Orlando
- from Santiago
Open in Rome2rio for every way from to Baños, flying or not.
Before you go
Type A and B plugs at 120 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the United states dollar. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Ecuador: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
Being there
On arrival
- Paying — Ecuador uses the US dollar, with its own coins alongside American ones. Bring $1 and $5 notes, as $50 and $100 bills are often refused; cards are taken mainly where tourists go, often with a commission, and you may be asked for your passport.
- UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
- Tipping — Not required, as bars, restaurants and hotels add a 10% service charge; in restaurants, leaving some spare change for good service is customary.
Getting around Baños
- Apps — Rides: DiDi, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. DiDi and Uber work in Quito and Guayaquil, the only cities with flights to the islands; on Santa Cruz, taxis are white pick-up trucks.
Easy, just walk. Nowhere is more than a 15-minute walk from where you start and usually even less. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Baños, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Help
- Emergency — 911 (any emergency).
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.
Your embassy — : how to reach your embassy or consulate abroad. A guess from your city, : a city is not a passport.
Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.
Sources (16)
- gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/ecuador/getting-help
- web.didiglobal.com/ec/conductor/ciudades
- uber.com/global/en/cities/quito
- uber.com/global/en/cities/guayaquil
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Quito
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Guayaquil
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ecuador
- ecogal.aero/en/transportation
- galapagos.gob.ec/informacion-de-interes-para-la-llegada-a-las-islas
- galapagos.gob.ec/la-forma-mas-comun-de-acceso-es-via-aerea
- galapagos.gob.ec/transporte-entre-islas-pobladas
- en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Puerto_Ayora
- developers.google.com/maps/coverage
- apple.com/ios/feature-availability
- pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2286608
- rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/AnnualReport/PDFs/09PAYMENT290526C6588B796E664822A2BD0DEB6452CAD4.PDF
Baños in pictures
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Arabsalam, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Arabsalam, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Dick Clark, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Dick Clark, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What Baños is like
Baños (de Agua Santa) is a small city in the Andean Highlands of Ecuador under the smoke of volcano Tungurahua. Popular with both foreign and domestic visitors coming for outdoor activities, Baños is known as the adventure capital of Ecuador. More on Wikivoyage
- Worth seeing
- While the town is mostly about activities, there are still places to see. Cascada de La Virgen. This is the main waterfall near the city center which empties near the thermal baths. More on Wikivoyage
- Worth doing
- The Pastaza river valley, which Baños sits in the middle of, is a canyon with several waterfalls and begins immediately east of Baños. More on Wikivoyage
- Getting in
- Road is the only way to get in; the closest airport is in Quito and there is no railway. More on Wikivoyage
- Staying safe
- Police: 101 Ambulance: (03) 2741 367 ext. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Baños, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.
Around Baños
Also in Ecuador
Nearby
- Trujillo Peru · 750 km
- Panama City Panama · 1,159 km
- Lima Peru · 1,190 km
- Manuel Antonio Costa Rica · 1,359 km
Kind of place
Baños is in Ecuador, Latin America. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.
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