AmbatoEcuador
Ambato time at a glance
- Country
- Ecuador
- Location
- City in Tungurahua Province
- Time zone
America/Guayaquil- UTC offset now
UTC-05:00- Current zone label
- GMT-5
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Weather now
Weather in Ambato
Conditions near Ambato and a 3-day forecast. Local conditions can differ across large urban areas, mountains and coastlines.
Patchy rain nearby
- Feels like
- 8°C
- Humidity
- 64%
- Wind
- 15.8 km/h E
- Recent precipitation
- 0.1 mm
3-day forecast
- Patchy rain nearby6°C to 15°C63% chance of precipitationWind up to 18 km/h
- Light rain shower4°C to 8°C89% chance of precipitationWind up to 12.6 km/h
- Mist3°C to 13°C48% chance of precipitationWind up to 15.5 km/h
Forecast valid from 17:45 local time. Updated 2026-08-10T22:58:10.243Z; refresh due by 2026-08-10T23:13:10.243Z.
Time-zone identity for Ambato
- IANA zone
America/Guayaquil- UTC offset now
- UTC-05:00
- Current zone label
- GMT-5
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Ambato is currently 5 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Ambato
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Sunday, 15 August 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Ambato
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Guayaquil, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Ambato
Location details for Ambato in Tungurahua Province, Ecuador.
- Administrative area
- Tungurahua Province, Ecuador
- Population
- 387,309
- Coordinates
- 1.2491° S, 78.6167° W. The elevation is 2,597 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Ambato
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Ambato. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- PelileoTungurahua Province, Ecuador12 km southeast
America/GuayaquilSame local time - PujilíCotopaxi, Ecuador34 km north
America/GuayaquilSame local time - LatacungaCotopaxi, Ecuador35 km north
America/GuayaquilSame local time - RiobambaChimborazo Province, Ecuador46 km south
America/GuayaquilSame local time - GuarandaBolívar, Ecuador57 km southwest
America/GuayaquilSame local time - PuyoPastaza Province, Ecuador73 km east
America/GuayaquilSame local time
Sources for Ambato time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Weather and Geolocation APIWeatherAPI.com · Forecast API v1; free plan · WeatherAPI.com terms; commercial and non-commercial use permitted by plan · AccessedCurrent weather conditions, the next 24 hours and a three-day forecast.