Quito

RE/MAX Ecuador open data on 6 October 2026: the canton of Quito has 145 active listings of apartments for rent. Of these, 46 have three or more bedrooms and a stated price: from 250 to 2200 dollars a month, median 690, middle half from 458 to 1200. In the north-central districts of Iñaquito, Rumipamba (including Quito Tenis), Bellavista and Jipijapa (Monteserrín) there are 22 such listings, median 1200, range 470-2009; below 500, apartments are let in Carcelén, Calderón, Cotocollao, Cochapamba, Kennedy, Puengasí and La Vicentina. Two-bedroom apartments: 52 listings, median 533, middle half 373-750. The building fee (expensas) is usually listed separately, in these listings up to 500 dollars, from 20. The sample contains duplicates and one sale listing that wrongly ended up among rentals, so the figures are approximate. These are asking prices of one agency; the big portals (Plusvalía, Properati) are closed to automated reading, and we found no official rent statistics by district of Quito. For comparison: the official INEC basket for August 2026 allows 175 dollars a month for a family's rent in Quito - this is a basic basket, not the market.

RE/MAX Ecuador open data on 6 October 2026. Houses: the canton of Quito has 656 listings for sale, of which 599 have three or more bedrooms and a price; median 138,000 dollars, middle half 85,000-230,000, a tenth cheaper than 65,000 and a tenth dearer than 360,000. Median floor area 192 m², median price about 710 dollars per m². Most houses are in the valleys and on the outskirts: Conocoto 79, Tumbaco 51, Calderón 47, Cumbayá 42. Apartments with three or more bedrooms: 358 listings, median 112,000, middle half 74,900-170,000, about 819 dollars per m²; most of them in Rumipamba (49) and Iñaquito (46). Prices are in dollars; these are asking prices of one agency, not transactions.

INEC, basic family consumption basket (CFBC) for August 2026, table by city. The basket is calculated for a family of 4. The "food and drinks" group for Quito is 372.19 dollars a month: cereals 48.56, meat, chicken and fish 76.96, non-alcoholic drinks 91.01, dairy and eggs 38.41, fruit 18.17, vegetables 20.27, food away from home 47.61, pet food 13.37, and other items. The national average for the same group is 357.44. This is a basic basket built around a family living on wages; the real spending of an incoming family is usually higher. The CFBC basket was introduced in 2026 to replace the old CFB and is not comparable with earlier values.

INEC, bulletin on income poverty for December 2025: the poverty line is 92.40 dollars a month per person, extreme poverty 52.07. For a family of four this is 369.60 dollars - our multiplication. The line is the same for the whole country; there is no separate figure for Quito. INEC had not published the newer value (June 2026) as of 6 October 2026. Urban poverty in the country in December 2025 was 13.8%. A second benchmark is the basic consumption basket for a family of four (CFBC) for August 2026: in Quito 846.47 dollars a month, nationally 828.06; it includes food 372.19, housing and utilities 282.04, of which rent 175.43, basic utilities (servicios básicos) 30.40, and communications 42.44. Neither the poverty line nor the basket reflects market rents: one three-bedroom apartment on listings costs 460-1200 dollars.

Tariff schedule ARCONEL-009/2026 for Empresa Eléctrica Quito, published in the Registro Oficial on 30 September 2026, in force for October-December 2026. Residential category, per kWh: 1-50 - 0.078 dollars; 51-100 - 0.081; 101-150 - 0.083; 151-200 - 0.097; 201-250 - 0.099; 251-300 - 0.101; 301-350 - 0.103; 351-500 - 0.105; 501-700 - 0.1285; 701-1000 - 0.145; and further up to 0.6812. The service charge (comercialización) is 1.414 dollars a month. The blocks are cumulative: each price applies only to its own kWh, as in El Diario's example for the same tariff. Our arithmetic, not an EEQ bill: 300 kWh = 26.95 + 1.41 = 28.36 dollars; 150 kWh = 12.10 + 1.41 = 13.51. According to El Diario, the EEQ bill also includes a street lighting charge and a contribution to the Quito fire service; we did not check their size. We did not find piped gas or the price of bottled gas.

Primicias, 19 November 2024, citing a city council debate: the lowest water price in Quito is 0.31 dollars per m³ for those using up to 8 m³ a month, while most people, using 16-30 m³, pay 0.40 per m³. The mayor then called water in the city "ridiculously cheap", and the council discussed a differentiated tariff rise by district. The EPMAPS water utility website (aguaquito.gob.ec) is closed by bot protection, so we did not see the full block schedule, the sewerage charge or the fixed part, and we do not calculate an example bill for 15 m³. The figures are almost two years old, and we did not check whether a rise was adopted after 2024.

Pages of the Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Health. Hospital de Especialidades Eugenio Espejo: 110 consulting rooms for specialties from cardiology and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and oncology, 416 beds, 13 scheduled operating theatres and 2 emergency ones, dialysis with 12 stations, a coronary unit with 5 beds. The Baca Ortiz children's hospital: 361 beds (267 census beds and 94 auxiliary), 12 operating theatres, a round-the-clock emergency department, 75 consulting rooms, 5 surgical and 26 clinical specialties, paediatric intensive care with 9 places, neonatal intensive care with 6 and intermediate with 15. The pages carry no update dates. According to the UK Foreign Office, public healthcare is free for foreigners too, but with queues and shortages of medicines (see the country fact). We did not check private clinics in Quito.

IG-EPN, the Geophysical Institute of the National Polytechnic School. Guagua Pichincha stands 12 km west of Quito; its last eruptive phase was in 1999-2000, when ash columns paralysed the city for several days. The crater opens to the west, so pyroclastic flows and lava are, in IG-EPN's assessment, highly unlikely to reach Quito, but ash can. Cotopaxi is 45 km south-east of Quito; IG-EPN calls it one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world; its latest eruptions in 2015 and 2022-2023 were small. A large eruption like that of 1877 would melt the glacier and produce lahars, mudflows that could reach the Los Chillos valley in the south-east of the canton; more than 300 thousand people across the country live in lahar threat zones. According to IG-EPN, such an eruption would be preceded by clear signs days or weeks in advance. The UK Foreign Office also notes a high risk of earthquakes throughout the country.

UK Foreign Office, advice updated 2 October 2026: Pichincha province is one of the eight provinces where a 60-day state of emergency for security reasons has been in force since 15 September (more police and soldiers, road checks); the curfew was imposed not here but in coastal provinces. Muggings and pickpocketing are common; care is needed in Quito's historic centre and at transport hubs; at Quito bus stations there are fraudsters posing as inspectors who ask you to put your bag on the overhead rack. Since March 2023 gangs have set off small explosions and made false bomb threats in Quito and Guayaquil. The city has a tourist police unit with branches in the north, the old town, the airport and bus terminals. We did not find official homicide statistics for Quito.

Quiport, the airport concessionaire: Aeropuerto Internacional Mariscal Sucre is located in the parish of Tababela, 24 km from the capital. In September 2026 the airport for the third time received the top, fifth level of the ACI passenger experience accreditation. On 30 September 2026 Quiport announced the return of Air Canada: Montreal-Quito from 4 December three times a week and Toronto-Quito from 5 December once a week, seasonal until March 2027. We did not see a full list of destinations: the airport website aeropuertoquito.aero is closed by bot protection. We did not check the travel time to the airport.

Home page of Metro de Quito, the "Metro en cifras" block on 6 October 2026: 154 million trips since the start of operation, 5.4 million trips in July 2026, 3.8 million kilometres travelled. The interactive map shows 15 stations. We did not find the ticket price and operating hours on the site; they are in separate sections.

Climate normals of Quito for 1981-2010 in the WMO handbook, data from the INAMHI weather service. The average minimum by month is from 9.4 to 10.2 degrees and the average maximum from 20.8 to 22.3, so there are almost no seasons by temperature. June, July, August: minimum 9.8, 9.4 and 9.6, maximum 21.1, 21.5 and 22.2; these are the driest months of the year. Averaged over the three months, minimum 9.6 and maximum 21.6 - our calculation.

WMO normals (INAMHI data) for 1981-2010, precipitation by month: January 82.5 mm, February 111.0, March 146.6, April 171.2, May 105.5, June 39.5, July 21.5, August 27.7, September 68.9, October 114.9, November 108.5, December 100.4. The total is 1098.2 mm a year; this is our sum. Days with precipitation: from 7 in July and August to 20 in April. So there are two rainy periods, February-May and October-December; the driest months are June, July and August, and September is transitional.

Netlife plans page on 6 October 2026: the Starter Defense plan, download speed up to 850 Mbit/s (minimum 425), XGPON technology, Wi-Fi 7 router; the price without promotion is 33.93 dollars a month including VAT, with a 50% discount on the first 9 bills - 16.96. The NX Starter plan up to 1000 Mbit/s costs 34.49 without promotion. Prices on the page are nationwide; connection of a specific house is checked by address. Netlife's service points page lists 16 addresses in Quito. We did not compare other providers in detail.