Season calendar

Ecuador fresh produce export calendar

Ecuador ships bananas and plantains every week of the year. When mangoes, pineapples and dragon fruit actually have a season, month by month.

Load ports: Guayaquil and Posorja
Produce covered: Banana Plantain Mango Pineapple Dragon fruit
Lanes out of here: Ecuador → Rotterdam, Ecuador → United States

Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

Ecuador fresh produce export calendar: which produce ships in which month.
Produce	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Banana Ships year-round	January: Peak	February: Peak	March: Peak	April: Peak	May: Peak	June: Peak	July: Peak	August: Peak	September: Peak	October: Peak	November: Peak	December: Peak
Plantain Ships year-round	January: Peak	February: Peak	March: Peak	April: Peak	May: Peak	June: Peak	July: Peak	August: Peak	September: Peak	October: Peak	November: Peak	December: Peak
Mango October–December peak · January, September shoulder	January: Shoulder	February: Not shipping	March: Not shipping	April: Not shipping	May: Not shipping	June: Not shipping	July: Not shipping	August: Not shipping	September: Shoulder	October: Peak	November: Peak	December: Peak
Pineapple November–March peak · April–October shoulder	January: Peak	February: Peak	March: Peak	April: Shoulder	May: Shoulder	June: Shoulder	July: Shoulder	August: Shoulder	September: Shoulder	October: Shoulder	November: Peak	December: Peak
Dragon fruit July–November peak · February–April shoulder	January: Not shipping	February: Shoulder	March: Shoulder	April: Shoulder	May: Not shipping	June: Not shipping	July: Peak	August: Peak	September: Peak	October: Peak	November: Peak	December: Not shipping

Last reviewed August 2026. Windows are editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule, and they are export weeks out of Ecuador rather than arrival weeks in your market.

Ecuador is mostly not a seasonal origin, and that is the single most useful thing to know about it. Bananas and plantains ship every week of the year against standing programmes, not against a harvest window, and the lane out of Guayaquil never closes. Volume firms through the Northern Hemisphere winter and softens in summer, but there is no month when the fruit stops.

What that changes is the meaning of a delay. On a seasonal origin a slipped week costs a slot in a peak that will not come round again; here it costs a week in a programme that is still running, with the next arrival already on the water and the ripening rooms behind it already booked. The genuinely seasonal Ecuadorian exports are the ones below bananas — mangoes, pineapples and pitahaya — and those behave like every other origin.

Banana

Ships year-round Varieties: Cavendish

Every week of the year. Bananas are harvested and shipped against standing programmes rather than in a season, and the lane out of Guayaquil never closes.

Volume and price firm through the Northern Hemisphere winter and soften through its summer, but there is no month when the fruit stops. The risk on a banana programme is two consecutive arrivals colliding in the same week, not a window closing.

Banana season across every origin · Ecuador → Rotterdam, Ecuador → United States

Plantain

Ships year-round

Year-round, on the same continuous programme logic as bananas and frequently on the same vessels.

The complication with plantains is at the destination: smaller lots, a narrower set of buyers, and a habit of being the part of a mixed load that gets deprioritised when a container has to be split. Knowing which box they are in beats knowing the month.

Plantain season across every origin · Ecuador → Rotterdam, Ecuador → United States

Mango

October–December peak · January, September shoulder Varieties: Tommy Atkins, Kent

Roughly October to January, the earliest of the three American mango windows on this site. It hands over to Peru in December and to Mexico in the spring.

Ecuador’s window is short and its volume is smaller than Peru’s, so it is usually the origin that opens a programme rather than the one that carries it.

Mango season across every origin · Ecuador → Rotterdam, Ecuador → United States

Pineapple

November–March peak · April–October shoulder Varieties: MD2

Year-round, firming through the Northern Hemisphere winter. Another programme rather than a season.

Pineapples are chilling-sensitive in a way most reefer cargo is not: run the container too cold and internal browning develops that is invisible until the fruit is cut. On this product the setpoint is a bigger risk than the calendar.

Pineapple season across every origin · Ecuador → Rotterdam, Ecuador → United States

Dragon fruit

July–November peak · February–April shoulder Varieties: Yellow pitahaya

Two windows a year rather than one: the main harvest from roughly July to November, and a thinner one from February to April. The second is real volume rather than the tail of the first, but it is small enough to sit in the shoulder band above — a buyer working from a single-season assumption will still miss it.

Dragon fruit has moved from air to sea as growers learned what it tolerates. It is high-value, low-volume cargo with a narrow temperature margin, which makes a lost container a serious loss rather than an annoyance.

Dragon fruit season across every origin

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