diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index aab947e4..b3a26e19 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Released 2019-mm-dd
 
 Announcements:
 - Experimental support for listing features in a grid when the map uses the dynamic agregation.
+- Numeric histogram performance improvement (#1080)
 - Update deps:
   - windshaft@4.13.3: Upgrade grainstore to version 1.11.0, do not hang when child process is not able to generate a Mapnik XML
 
diff --git a/lib/cartodb/models/dataview/histograms/numeric-histogram.js b/lib/cartodb/models/dataview/histograms/numeric-histogram.js
index ddf3577f..492316ba 100644
--- a/lib/cartodb/models/dataview/histograms/numeric-histogram.js
+++ b/lib/cartodb/models/dataview/histograms/numeric-histogram.js
@@ -4,50 +4,37 @@ const BaseHistogram = require('./base-histogram');
 const debug = require('debug')('windshaft:dataview:numeric-histogram');
 const utils = require('../../../utils/query-utils');
 
-/** Query to get min and max values from the query */
+/** Query to get min, max, count and (if necessary) bin number of the query */
 const irqQueryTpl = ctx => `
-    __cdb_filtered_source AS (
-        SELECT *
-        FROM (${ctx.query}) __cdb_filtered_source_query
-        WHERE ${utils.handleFloatColumn(ctx)} IS NOT NULL
-    ),
-    __cdb_basics AS (
+ __cdb_basics AS (
+    SELECT
+        *,
+        CASE
+            WHEN __cdb_total_rows = 0 OR __cdb_iqr = 0 THEN 1
+            ELSE GREATEST(
+                LEAST(
+                    ${ctx.minBins},
+                    __cdb_total_rows::int),
+                LEAST(
+                    ${ctx.maxBins},
+                    ((__cdb_max_val - __cdb_min_val) / (2 * __cdb_iqr * power(__cdb_total_rows, 1/3)))::int)
+                )
+            END AS __cdb_bins_number
+    FROM
+    (
         SELECT
             max(${ctx.column}) AS __cdb_max_val,
             min(${ctx.column}) AS __cdb_min_val,
-            count(1) AS __cdb_total_rows
-        FROM __cdb_filtered_source
-    )
-`;
-
-/* Query to calculate the number of bins (needs irqQueryTpl before it*/
-const binsQueryTpl = ctx => `
-    __cdb_iqrange AS (
-        SELECT max(quartile_max) - min(quartile_max) AS __cdb_iqr
-        FROM (
-            SELECT quartile, max(_cdb_iqr_column) AS quartile_max from (
-                SELECT ${ctx.column} AS _cdb_iqr_column, ntile(4) over (order by ${ctx.column}
-            ) AS quartile
-            FROM __cdb_filtered_source) _cdb_quartiles
-            WHERE quartile = 1 or quartile = 3
-            GROUP BY 1
-        ) __cdb_iqr
-    ),
-    __cdb_bins AS (
-        SELECT
-            CASE WHEN __cdb_total_rows = 0 OR __cdb_iqr = 0
-            THEN 1
-            ELSE GREATEST(
-                LEAST(${ctx.minBins}, CAST(__cdb_total_rows AS INT)),
-                LEAST(
-                    CAST(((__cdb_max_val - __cdb_min_val) / (2 * __cdb_iqr * power(__cdb_total_rows, 1/3))) AS INT),
-                    ${ctx.maxBins}
-                )
-            )
-            END AS __cdb_bins_number
-        FROM __cdb_basics, __cdb_iqrange, __cdb_filtered_source
-        LIMIT 1
-    )
+            count(1) AS __cdb_total_rows,
+            ${ctx.irq ? ctx.irq : `0`} AS __cdb_iqr
+        FROM
+        (
+            SELECT *
+            FROM (${ctx.query}) __cdb_filtered_source_query
+            WHERE ${utils.handleFloatColumn(ctx)} IS NOT NULL
+        ) __cdb_filtered_source
+    ) __cdb_basics_2
+)
 `;
 
 const BIN_MIN_NUMBER = 6;
@@ -117,10 +104,12 @@ module.exports = class NumericHistogram extends BaseHistogram {
         }
 
         if (ctx.bins <= 0) {
-            ctx.bins = `__cdb_bins.__cdb_bins_number`;
-            extra_groupby += `, __cdb_bins.__cdb_bins_number`;
-            extra_tables += `, __cdb_bins`;
-            extra_queries = `WITH ${irqQueryTpl(ctx)}, ${binsQueryTpl(ctx)}`;
+            ctx.bins = `__cdb_basics.__cdb_bins_number`;
+            ctx.irq = `percentile_disc(0.75) within group (order by ${ctx.column})
+                         - percentile_disc(0.25) within group (order by ${ctx.column})`;
+            extra_groupby += `, __cdb_basics.__cdb_bins_number`;
+            extra_tables = `, __cdb_basics`;
+            extra_queries = `WITH ${irqQueryTpl(ctx)}`;
         }
 
         return `
diff --git a/test/acceptance/dataviews/histogram.js b/test/acceptance/dataviews/histogram.js
index aa89d53e..f517a59a 100644
--- a/test/acceptance/dataviews/histogram.js
+++ b/test/acceptance/dataviews/histogram.js
@@ -90,6 +90,26 @@ describe('histogram-dataview', function() {
         });
     });
 
+    it('should work with min >= start and max <= end, autodetect bins', function(done) {
+        var params = {
+            start: 50,
+            end: 500
+        };
+
+        this.testClient = new TestClient(mapConfig, 1234);
+        this.testClient.getDataview('pop_max_histogram', params, function(err, dataview) {
+            assert.ok(!err, err);
+
+            assert.ok(6 === dataview.bins_count, 'Unexpected bin count: ' + dataview.bins_count);
+            assert.ok(6 === dataview.bins.length, 'Unexpected number of bins: ' + dataview.bins.length);
+            dataview.bins.forEach(function(bin) {
+                assert.ok(bin.min >= params.start, 'bin min < start: ' + JSON.stringify(bin));
+                assert.ok(bin.max <= params.end, 'bin max > end: ' + JSON.stringify(bin));
+            });
+            done();
+        });
+    });
+
     it('should get bin_width right when max > min in filter', function(done) {
         var params = {
             bins: 10,