Bogotá climate

Name: Bogotá
Address: CO

Bogotá is warmest in September, with average highs of 20 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 11 °C. April is the wettest month (135 mm) and August the driest (22 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Colombia · population 7,674,366 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month September 20 °C
Coldest month December 11 °C
Driest month August 22 mm
Wettest month April 135 mm
Least cloud January 77 % cloud
Hottest on record February 23 °C
Coldest on record January 4.6 °C

What to expectBogotá through the year

Bogotá changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 19 and 20 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Rain is strongly seasonal. April averages 135 mm against 22 mm in August — 6.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	18.9 °C	67 mm	77 %
February	19.1 °C	86 mm	81 %
March	18.8 °C	122 mm	88 %
April	18.3 °C	135 mm	93 %
May	18.0 °C	89 mm	93 %
June	18.0 °C	43 mm	90 %
July	18.1 °C	39 mm	87 %
August	19.2 °C	22 mm	83 %
September	19.6 °C	30 mm	84 %
October	18.7 °C	95 mm	89 %
November	18.3 °C	120 mm	90 %
December	18.6 °C	82 mm	82 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low
January	18.9 °C	10.5 °C	14.0 °C	22.3 °C	4.6 °C
February	19.1 °C	10.9 °C	14.2 °C	23.1 °C	5.3 °C
March	18.8 °C	11.3 °C	14.3 °C	22.9 °C	6.6 °C
April	18.3 °C	11.4 °C	14.2 °C	22.4 °C	6.6 °C
May	18.0 °C	11.4 °C	14.1 °C	21.3 °C	7.3 °C
June	18.0 °C	11.1 °C	13.9 °C	20.9 °C	6.9 °C
July	18.1 °C	10.9 °C	13.9 °C	21.2 °C	6.0 °C
August	19.2 °C	10.9 °C	14.3 °C	22.2 °C	6.1 °C
September	19.6 °C	10.7 °C	14.5 °C	23.1 °C	6.1 °C
October	18.7 °C	10.5 °C	14.0 °C	23.0 °C	6.2 °C
November	18.3 °C	10.5 °C	13.8 °C	21.2 °C	6.7 °C
December	18.6 °C	10.5 °C	13.9 °C	22.2 °C	5.6 °C

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	67 mm	16	12 h/day	77 %	79 %	8.6 km/h
February	86 mm	17	12 h/day	81 %	80 %	8.7 km/h
March	122 mm	21	12 h/day	88 %	82 %	8.5 km/h
April	135 mm	21	12 h/day	93 %	84 %	8.7 km/h
May	89 mm	17	12 h/day	93 %	82 %	9.5 km/h
June	43 mm	12	12 h/day	90 %	78 %	11 km/h
July	39 mm	11	12 h/day	87 %	74 %	12 km/h
August	22 mm	7	12 h/day	83 %	70 %	13 km/h
September	30 mm	9	12 h/day	84 %	72 %	12 km/h
October	95 mm	17	12 h/day	89 %	80 %	9.5 km/h
November	120 mm	21	12 h/day	90 %	84 %	7.6 km/h
December	82 mm	18	12 h/day	82 %	82 %	8.5 km/h

How Bogotá compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Bogotá	20 °C	11 °C	929 mm	0
Soacha · Colombia	20 °C	10 °C	2,017 mm	0
Villavicencio · Colombia	30 °C	19 °C	2,125 mm	347
Ibagué · Colombia	26 °C	17 °C	1,431 mm	147
Tunja · Colombia	18 °C	7.8 °C	1,785 mm	0
Manizales · Colombia	21 °C	9.6 °C	14,397 mm	5
Armenia · Colombia	23 °C	14 °C	5,718 mm	15

Where Bogotá ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in South America in November	15th of 50	18 °C
The coolest places in South America in December	18th of 50	19 °C
The coolest places in South America in March	18th of 50	19 °C
The coolest places in South America in April	19th of 50	18 °C
The coolest places in South America in February	19th of 50	19 °C
The coolest places in South America year-round	20th of 50	19 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Bogotá.

QuestionsCommon questions about Bogotá’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bogotá?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. March, August, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, September is the warmest month and August the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Bogotá get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 20 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 23 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 11 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bogotá?

April, averaging 135 mm over 21 days with rain. The driest month is August with 22 mm. The year as a whole averages 929 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Bogotá rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 4.610°, -74.082° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.