Guayaquil
City in Ecuador: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
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Overview
Guayaquil is a city in Ecuador, in Guayas. About 2.7 million people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Ecuador in our atlas.
It lies at 2.20° S, 79.89° W, about 14 m (46 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Guayaquil time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Guayaquil. Green dots: other major cities of Ecuador. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Guayaquil has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). The warmest month is usually Aug, with average highs near 36°C (96°F); the coolest nights come in Aug at about 20°C (67°F). Around 770 mm (30 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Feb.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in EcuadorNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Eloy Alfaro · 6 km
- Machala · 118 km
- Cuenca · 126 km
- Portoviejo · 141 km
- Ambato · 176 km
- Loja · 213 km
- Santo Domingo de los Colorados · 230 km
- Quito · 265 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3657509 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q43509 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
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- Gye13: Yyntl, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo: Freddy eduardo, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Presley Norton Museum: Freddy eduardo, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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