EcuadorGalapagos IslandsIslandUNESCO World Heritage

Santa Fe Island

24.7 km² of land in the Pacific Ocean.

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Beaches

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

24.7km²

Area

27km

Coastline

163m

Highest point

People

27°C

Warmest sea

March

1,018km

To the mainland

When to go to Santa Fe Island

Best for the beach from May to July and from November to December.

The sea is warmest in March (27 °C) and coolest in August (22 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

25°25°24°

Jan7

26°27°26°

Feb11

27°27°26°

Mar12

26°27°25°

Apr9

25°26°24°

May4

24°24°23°

Jun2

23°23°22°

Jul2

22°22°21°

Aug2

22°22°21°

Sep1

22°22°21°

Oct2

23°23°22°

Nov2

23°24°23°

Dec5

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island of the Galápagos archipelago

Santa Fe Island is an island in Ecuador. It belongs to Galapagos Islands. It covers 24.7 km², with 27 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 163 m. Nobody lives on it. The nearest mainland is 1,018 km away. It is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Getting there

Seymour Galapagos Ecological Airport (GPS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 47 km in a straight lineCar hire at GYE airport (Guayaquil)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
1,018 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From May to July and from November to Decemberbest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Santa Fe Island.

2beaches

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 109 m above the sea. 97 % of it is below 200 m.

14 %0–50 m
84 %50–200 m
3 %200–500 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Santa Fe Island25 km²

Manhattan54 km²

Santorini76 km²

5 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	25	27	27	27	26	24	23	22	22	22	23	24
Night low (°C)	24	26	26	25	24	23	22	21	21	21	22	23
Sea (°C)	25	26	27	26	25	24	23	22	22	22	23	23
Rain (mm)	39	60	53	58	16	10	9	10	9	10	9	14
Wet days	7	11	12	9	4	2	2	2	1	2	2	5
Sun h/day	8.0	8.6	9.3	8.8	8.4	7.5	6.6	6.2	6.0	6.8	6.9	7.4
Wind (km/h)	15	12	11	12	16	18	19	19	19	18	18	17

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	+0.4	±0.0	−0.1	+1.2	−0.5	−0.8	−1.4	−1.4	−0.5	−0.3	+0.1	−0.5
2021	−0.7	−0.3	+0.2	−1.0	−0.2	+0.2	+0.8	+0.6	+0.5	+0.3	−1.0	−2.2
2022	−1.4	−1.1	−0.3	−1.5	−1.6	−1.2	−0.1	+0.4	−0.7	−2.3	−1.2	−0.8
2023	−1.1	+0.5	+0.5	+2.0	+2.0	+3.0	+3.4	+3.2	+2.6	+2.2	+2.7	+1.9
2024	+1.0	+1.1	+1.0	±0.0	−1.4	−1.4	−0.7	−1.2	−0.2	−0.1	+1.2	−0.5
2025	±0.0	+0.3	+1.3	+0.9	−0.1	+0.7	+0.7	±0.0	−1.7	±0.0	−0.8	−1.0

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Opuntia echios - Santa Fe, Galapagos — me · CC BY 3.0

Nearby

More islands nearby.

Santa Cruz Island

Ecuador988 km²864 m39 km away

Baltra Island

Ecuador25 km²37 m47 km away

San Cristóbal Island

Ecuador561 km²759 m73 km away

Floreana Island

Ecuador173 km²444 m67 km away

Española Island

Ecuador60 km²125 m74 km away

Isabela Island

Ecuador4,711 km²1,707 m107 km away

Pinzón Island

Ecuador18 km²458 m71 km away

Santiago Island

Ecuador579 km²920 m95 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q408211) · CC0
Outline	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperature	NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
Climate	NASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Towns	GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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