Tukuk-OS🌆 Quito
Ecuador · Americas · 0.18°S, 78.47°W
Quick facts
| Country | Ecuador |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Americas |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 0.18°S, 78.47°W · view on map |
Quito is in Ecuador, a country in Americas. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Quito’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Quito sits on the Earth
At 0.18° south of the equator, Quito is about 20 km from the equator itself and 9,988 km from its nearest pole — and that puts it inside the tropics, where the sun passes directly overhead twice a year and the yearly swing in day length stays small. Latitude is only the sky’s address, of course: altitude, oceans and winds write the actual weather, which is why two cities on the same parallel can need overcoats in one place and sun hats in the other. The numbers on this page come straight from the town’s own coordinates.
Two consequences of that latitude anyone can test. On the equinox the midday sun stands 89.8° above the horizon here (straight up at the equator, lower the further you go). And because the Earth is a sphere turning once a day, a point at this latitude is carried around its axis at roughly 1,674 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Quito sees its longest day lasts about 12.0 hours of daylight and its shortest about 12.0.
Nearest cities on our list: Cali (457.6 km to the north-northeast), Bogotá (731.1 km to the northeast), Medellín (782.6 km to the north-northeast), Panama City (1,025 km to the north). Every profile here carries the same arithmetic, so the distances between any two of them can be checked by opening both pages.
The other side of the world: a straight line through the centre of the Earth from Quito emerges at 0.18°N, 101.53°E — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Melaka, about 238.4 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.