Places · Ecuador
Living in Quito
Ecuador · temperate
Quito is a big city of roughly 2,000,000 people near the mountains in Ecuador. The climate is temperate. It has a lively, popular feel with average safety for the region. A typical month of living costs around $1,000. Healthcare is strong, and the internet is fast enough for full-time remote work. People come here for history, hiking, art and culture.
Entro il 2030 qui è atteso un cambiamento concreto: metro di quito, fase 2: 13 nuove stazioni. Chi nasce in Ecuador è cittadino, quale che sia la nazionalità dei genitori.
At a glance
Who tends to love Quito
- Making a budget stretch further
- Working remotely with reliable internet
- A genuinely good food scene
- Access to strong healthcare
- Raising a family
- Anyone into hiking
All parameters
📈 Popularity & prices: Growing
Accommodation prices have moved about +25% in the last 5 years.
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Good to know
- • Can get busy with visitors in peak season.
- • Natural risks worth checking: earthquake.
⚠️ The honest downsides
- •Yellow fever risk, vaccination is required or recommended.
- •Malaria is present, mostly in rural areas and the wet season.
- •Rabies risk from stray dogs, think twice before petting animals.
- •Tap water isn't reliably drinkable, budget for filtered or bottled.
- •Air quality: PM2.5 averages ~15 µg/m³ (WHO guideline is 5).
Health, air (WHO PM2.5), water & crime figures are rough country-level estimates, verify for your case.
On the map
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