Santo Domingo de los Colorados
City in Ecuador: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Collage Santo Domingo: David C. S., CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Santo Domingo de los Colorados is a city in Ecuador, in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas. About 458,580 people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Ecuador in our atlas.
It lies at 0.25° S, 79.18° W, about 555 m (1,821 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Guayaquil time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Santo Domingo de los Colorados. Green dots: other major cities of Ecuador. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Santo Domingo de los Colorados has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Sep, with average highs near 30°C (87°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 18°C (65°F). Around 1,464 mm (58 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Mar.
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
- Quito · 72 km
- Ambato · 127 km
- Portoviejo · 167 km
- Eloy Alfaro · 225 km
- Guayaquil · 230 km
- Cuenca · 294 km
- Machala · 345 km
- Loja · 415 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3651297 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q1015654 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Collage Santo Domingo: David C. S., CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Estadio etho vega: CesarEmilioOrmaza, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
