A liquid ejecting apparatus is configured to record a pattern group including a first pattern and a second pattern by driving a moving mechanism to perform a relative movement between a head and a recording medium and by driving the head to eject liquid towards the recording medium. The first pattern and the second pattern are recorded at different timings. Further, recording of the second pattern is performed when a temperature of the liquid in the head is temperature T2 which is different, by a target temperature difference or more, from temperature T1 which is a temperature of the liquid when the first pattern is recorded.