TL;DR The wet season (December-May) gives you warm water, calm seas, excellent snorkeling visibility, lush green islands, and the best conditions for families or anyone sensitive to motion sickness. The dry season (June-November) gives you cooler, nutrient-rich water with more…
TL;DR High season in the Galapagos means July, August, Christmas-New Year, and Easter week. Low season is September through November and much of April to June. The price gap runs 15-25% between them on most vessels. The wildlife gap is…
TL;DR December is the Galapagos at its most celebratory – seasonally and literally. The warm season begins, bringing calm seas, warming water, clearing skies, and the first signs of lush vegetation. The waved albatross chicks make their final flights from…
TL;DR November is one of the most rewarding months in the Galapagos calendar, and one of the least appreciated. It sits at the tail end of the dry season, which means calmer seas than September or October, rising water temperatures,…
TL;DR October is one of the best-kept secrets in the Galapagos calendar. Crowds are low, prices are at their annual minimum, and the wildlife is extraordinary. Whale sharks are still passing Darwin and Wolf Islands in the final weeks of…
TL;DR September is the best value month in the Galapagos dry season. Summer crowds have cleared as northern hemisphere schools return, prices drop 15-20% below the July-August peak, and the wildlife is essentially unchanged from peak season. Sea lion pups…
TL;DR August is the peak of the Galapagos dry season and shares the busiest, most expensive window of the year with July. The wildlife payoff is genuine: sea lion pups begin arriving on beaches, Galapagos penguin activity peaks, whale watching…
TL;DR July is the most popular month in the Galapagos, and the wildlife makes it easy to understand why. Blue-footed booby courtship hits its peak. Humpback whales and multiple other cetacean species are active. Galapagos penguins are hunting in nutrient-rich…
TL;DR June marks the start of the cool, dry season, and it’s genuinely one of the best months in the Galapagos. The heat and humidity of the warm season are gone. Skies are clear and blue. Marine life surges as…
TL;DR May is one of the most underrated months in the Galapagos. The rain is essentially gone, the air cools to its most comfortable of the warm season, the water is still warm enough to snorkel without a wetsuit, and…