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Dragon fruit (pitahaya) season by country

When Ecuador and Vietnam ship dragon fruit by sea, month by month — yellow pitahaya against a white-flesh crop that barely closes.

Available all year, peak July–April, from Ecuador and Vietnam. The rest of the year is shoulder supply rather than a gap.

Dragon fruit export calendar: which origin ships in which month.
Origin January February March April May June July August September October November December
Ecuador 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
Vietnam January: Peak February: Peak March: Peak April: Peak May: Shoulder June: Shoulder July: Shoulder August: Shoulder September: Shoulder October: Peak November: Peak December: Peak
Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

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

Two origins on this page and two different fruits. Ecuadorian yellow dragon fruit, sold as pitahaya, has two windows a year rather than one — a main harvest through the second half of the year and a thinner autumn window that shows below as a shoulder band rather than a second peak. Vietnamese dragon fruit is the white-flesh, red-skinned one, it comes from Binh Thuan in far larger volume, and it does not really stop.

Both are exports that moved from air to sea as growers learned what the fruit tolerates, and both are unforgiving of a setpoint that drifted. The difference is the market: Ecuador ships a high-value, low-volume programme to Europe, while Vietnam ships a commodity crop a few days up the coast into Hong Kong and mainland China, where the price is set by the week rather than by the season.

Ecuador

July–November peak · February–April shoulder Varieties: Yellow pitahaya Load ports: Guayaquil and Posorja

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.

Ecuador dragon fruit: window and arrival weeks · Everything Ecuador ships

Vietnam

October–April peak · May–September shoulder Varieties: White-flesh, red-skinned Load ports: Ho Chi Minh City and Hai Phong

The natural harvest in Binh Thuan runs May to September and is the cheapest fruit of the year. The band drawn as peak is the other one: growers light the orchards at night from about October to flower the crop out of season, and that is the fruit the export programme into Hong Kong and mainland China is built on, running into the Lunar New Year weeks.

Vietnam dragon fruit: window and arrival weeks · Everything Vietnam ships · Vietnam → Hong Kong

FAQ

When are dragon fruits in season?
Dragon fruits are at peak July–April, shipping from Ecuador and Vietnam. They are still available in May–June, on the shoulder of those windows rather than in volume.
Which countries export dragon fruits?
Ecuador and Vietnam. These are export weeks out of the origin, not arrival weeks in your market — add the lane's transit on top.

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