Medellín climate

Name: Medellín
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Medellín is warmest in August, with average highs of 27 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 16 °C. May is the wettest month (329 mm) and January the driest (133 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Medellín averages 2,795 mm of rain and 241 days above 25 °C.

Colombia · 1,405 m elevation · population 1,999,979 · 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 August 27 °C
Coldest month July 16 °C
Driest month January 133 mm
Wettest month May 329 mm
Least cloud January 79 % cloud
Hottest on record February 32 °C
Coldest on record January 12 °C

What to expectMedellín through the year

Medellín changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 26 and 27 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 241 days a year reach 25 °C, 2 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 329 mm against 133 mm in January — 2.5 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.5 °C	133 mm	79 %
February	26.0 °C	165 mm	81 %
March	26.1 °C	261 mm	88 %
April	25.6 °C	328 mm	95 %
May	25.5 °C	329 mm	96 %
June	25.9 °C	208 mm	93 %
July	26.3 °C	169 mm	92 %
August	26.8 °C	176 mm	91 %
September	26.2 °C	242 mm	92 %
October	25.1 °C	301 mm	94 %
November	24.5 °C	292 mm	93 %
December	25.0 °C	192 mm	86 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	25.5 °C	16.2 °C	20.2 °C	30.9 °C	12.2 °C	19
February	26.0 °C	16.3 °C	20.4 °C	31.5 °C	13.1 °C	20
March	26.1 °C	16.5 °C	20.5 °C	30.7 °C	12.7 °C	23
April	25.6 °C	17.0 °C	20.5 °C	30.2 °C	13.7 °C	19
May	25.5 °C	17.0 °C	20.4 °C	29.7 °C	14.0 °C	19
June	25.9 °C	16.3 °C	20.3 °C	29.2 °C	13.5 °C	22
July	26.3 °C	15.6 °C	20.2 °C	30.4 °C	13.3 °C	25
August	26.8 °C	15.8 °C	20.5 °C	30.6 °C	12.4 °C	27
September	26.2 °C	16.3 °C	20.4 °C	30.7 °C	13.5 °C	22
October	25.1 °C	16.7 °C	20.0 °C	30.4 °C	13.0 °C	17
November	24.5 °C	16.9 °C	19.9 °C	27.8 °C	14.2 °C	11
December	25.0 °C	16.6 °C	20.1 °C	29.9 °C	13.5 °C	16

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	133 mm	21	12 h/day	79 %	85 %	5.6 km/h
February	165 mm	22	12 h/day	81 %	85 %	5.7 km/h
March	261 mm	28	12 h/day	88 %	87 %	5.5 km/h
April	328 mm	28	12 h/day	95 %	89 %	5.2 km/h
May	329 mm	29	12 h/day	96 %	90 %	5.4 km/h
June	208 mm	26	12 h/day	93 %	87 %	6.4 km/h
July	169 mm	24	12 h/day	92 %	84 %	7.5 km/h
August	176 mm	24	12 h/day	91 %	83 %	7.6 km/h
September	242 mm	27	12 h/day	92 %	86 %	6.5 km/h
October	301 mm	29	12 h/day	94 %	89 %	5.4 km/h
November	292 mm	28	12 h/day	93 %	90 %	4.9 km/h
December	192 mm	24	12 h/day	86 %	87 %	5.1 km/h

How Medellín 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
Medellín	27 °C	16 °C	2,795 mm	241
Itagüí · Colombia	26 °C	15 °C	2,780 mm	196
Bello · Colombia	27 °C	16 °C	2,740 mm	249
Manizales · Colombia	21 °C	9.6 °C	14,397 mm	5
Pereira · Colombia	22 °C	14 °C	12,420 mm	18
Armenia · Colombia	23 °C	14 °C	5,718 mm	15

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Medellín’s climate

When is the best time to visit Medellín?

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

How hot does Medellín get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 27 °C. About 2 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 16 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Medellín?

May, averaging 329 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is January with 133 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,795 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 Medellín 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: 6.245°, -75.572° , 1405 m above sea level (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.