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The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky
The Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace, Split
SplitThe Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace

Photos: Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Split by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Quito or Split?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Quito for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Quito’s own page.

Choose Split for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Split’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Quito 5, Split 75: Split leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Quito 54, Split 57: Split leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Quito 77, Split 66: Quito leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Quito 40, Split 52: Split leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quito 86, Split 77: Quito leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Quito 55, Split 78: Split leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Quito 32, Split 54: Split leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Quito 45, Split 67: Split leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Quito 40, Split 32: Quito leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Quito 78, Split 45: Quito leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quito 38, Split 37: Quito leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quito 44, Split 40: Quito leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quito and Split.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Quito
50match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Split
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Split in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
25 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuitoSplit
Official languageSpanish, Shuar, Northern QuichuaCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,850 m0 m
Main airportMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuitoSplit
City population1,763,275160,577
People per km²4,735-
Museums within 10 km1611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.