QuitoEcuador
Quito time at a glance
- Country
- Ecuador
- Location
- Capital city of Ecuador
- Time zone
America/Guayaquil- UTC offset now
UTC-05:00- Current zone label
- GMT-5
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Quito time guide
Does Quito change its clocks?
UTC-05:00.- Year-round offset
- Ecuador Time, UTC-05:00
- Time-zone identifier
- America/Guayaquil
- Quito and London
- 5 hours behind GMT; 6 hours behind BST
- Quito and New York
- Same clock time during EST; 1 hour behind during EDT
Urban area and metropolitan district
Quito’s district includes urban and rural residents
Ecuador’s INEC counted 2,804,269 people in the Metropolitan District of Quito in 2022, including 1,850,973 classified as urban and 953,296 as rural. The full district total is therefore broader than Quito’s urban population.
Time-zone identity for Quito
- 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.
Quito is currently 5 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Quito
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 29 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Quito
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.
Capital city context
About Quito, capital of Ecuador
Quito is the capital of Ecuador. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Ecuador
- Administrative area
- Pichincha, Ecuador
- Population
- 2,781,641
- Coordinates
- 0.2298° S, 78.5250° W. The elevation is 2,854 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Quito
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Quito. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- PomasquiPichincha, Ecuador21 km north
America/GuayaquilSame local time - MachachiPichincha, Ecuador32 km south
America/GuayaquilSame local time - CayambePichincha, Ecuador52 km northeast
America/GuayaquilSame local time - OtavaloImbabura, Ecuador59 km northeast
America/GuayaquilSame local time - AtuntaquiImbabura, Ecuador71 km northeast
America/GuayaquilSame local time - Santo Domingo de los ColoradosSanto Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador72 km west
America/GuayaquilSame local time
Sources for Quito 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.
- Population estimates and projectionsNational Institute of Statistics and Census of Ecuador · 2022 census-based estimates · AccessedOfficial canton and urban/rural figures for the Metropolitan District of Quito.