Quito holidays
- DateQuito holiday
- January 1Vacation all over the Country. New Year's festivity. Costume parties, dances, masquerades.
- February 12Amazon & Galapagos Day. Amazon's River discovery anniversary. Civic events.
- February 27Civicism & National Unity Day. Remembrance of the Tarqui Battle.
- February or MarchCarnival ( Monday and Tuesday) folk parade. Art and artisans expositions. Bullfights.
- March or AprilEaster and holy week.
- May 1Labor day with typical parades and processions fill the streets of Ecuador as workers worldwide are honored.
- May 24Pichincha Battle anniversary. Parades, cultural activity.
- August 10Commemoration of the first proclamation of Independence. Military parades, civic and artistic events.
- September 23 - 24Festivity in honor of the "Mercedes" Virgin, vigil, bands, fireworks, fire castles, midnight mass.
- October 9Guayaquil's independence anniversary. Concerts, sport events, parades, regattas, and many artistic shows.
- October 12Columbus Day. Also know as " Dia de la Raza"
- November 2All - souls Day. Great concurrency to cemeteries.
- November 3Cuenca's independence anniversary, parades, artistic expositions, cultural events and artisan fairs.
- December 6Quito's spanish foundation anniversary. Parties in all the city. Bullfights, parades, sports events, wooden car races.
- December 31New Year's Eve. Burning of the "Año Viejo", (Old Year), a doll that symbolizes this date. Dances, "widows".