Bogotá weather by month: averages, rainfall & climate trends
Colombia's high-Andean capital enjoys a cool, spring-like climate the year round: never hot despite sitting near the equator, its mild days and crisp nights set by altitude rather than season. Bogotá weather by month: average temperatures, rainfall, records and how the climate has changed since 1940.
Today vs average
+1.2°Chigh near average
How it's changed
+1.4°Caverage temperature, 2016–2025 vs 1940–1949average temperature vs 1940–49+1.4°C vs the 1940s · see how it's changed →Weather by montha typical year, averaged over the full recordJanuary, rain 86 mmhigh 19°low 10°February, rain 103 mmhigh 19°low 10°March, rain 144 mmhigh 19°low 10°April, rain 165 mmhigh 18°low 11°May, rain 117 mmhigh 18°low 11°June, rain 62 mmhigh 17°low 10°July, rain 47 mmhigh 17°low 10°August, rain 32 mmhigh 18°low 10°September, rain 43 mmhigh 19°low 10°October, rain 116 mmhigh 19°low 10°November, rain 137 mmhigh 19°low 10°December, rain 97 mmhigh 19°low 10°wettest month April, 165 mm · 1,148 mm a yearsee month by month →Right now
What it's doing today vs the historical average for this date.Right now
13.2°
On this date: October 18
High near average · +1.2°C
- Record high: 22.4° · 1990
- Record low: 7.1° · 1945
- One year ago: 16° / 11°
Every October 18 in history, coldest to hottest
Dots show daily highs (top) and lows (bottom) for each October 18 on record (n = 87). Outlined dots are today's forecast.
Area we sample
Each city's history comes from one ERA5 grid cell, about 28 km across, shown by the dashed box. Near mountains or coasts, conditions can vary across the cell.
Location & data
Historical weather for Bogotá is sampled from the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at 4.61°N, 74.08°W, with daily records since 1940.
- Coordinates
- 4.61°N, 74.08°W
- Time zone
- America/Bogota
- Period
- 1940–2026
- Data source
- ERA5 (ECMWF)
Last 30 days
31 of the last 31 days were warmer than the historical average for that date. Average difference: +1.2°C.
Each bar is one day, from morning low to afternoon high. Warm-colored bars are days whose mean ran above average; cool bars ran below. The dot inside the bar is the daily mean. The shaded band is the typical 10–90% range expected for that date. Average = the day's mean temperature averaged across every year of record (1940–2026) for that calendar date.
This date over the years
One dot per year, showing the mean temperature on this calendar date. Dots are warmer or cooler than the long-term average (dashed line); the shaded band is the typical 10–90% range, and the highlighted dot is today's forecast. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Weather by month
Average temperatures and rainfall for each month: a typical year, from the full record.Climate overview
Bogotá has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cfb): although it lies near the equator, its great altitude high in the Colombian Andes makes it cool and spring-like all year rather than tropical. Every month averages well below lowland warmth, days are mild and nights chilly, and the thin, elevated air brings a high day-to-night temperature swing.
Instead of summer and winter, the year alternates between drier and rainier spells (the driest months fall around December–January and July–August, and March is the warmest). It is altitude, not the calendar, that governs the city's weather.
The warmest month is March, with typical afternoon highs of 18.7°C and nights around 10.4°C. At the other extreme, July brings afternoon highs of about 17.0°C and typical overnight lows of 9.7°C. Frost is essentially unknown.
Bogotá picks up roughly 1,148 mm a year, with a peak of 165 mm in April and as little as 32 mm in August.
Comparing the record's first decade with its most recent one, Bogotá now averages 1.4°C warmer than it did in the 1940s. Recent years have brought more rain as well. The last decade sits roughly 13% over the long-term average.
Climate graph (climograph)
March is the warmest month, July the coolest: a yearly swing of 1°C. Wettest month: April (~165 mm). Whole year averages ~1,148 mm of rain.
Bars = average monthly rainfall (right axis). Lines = average daily high and low (left axis). Average = each month's value averaged across every year of record (1940–2026).
Monthly wind
Average daily peak wind at 10 m, by month.
Monthly solar energy
Average daily incoming solar energy in megajoules per square metre: the record's own proxy for how sunny the month is.
Bogotá month by month: what to expect
Typical conditions for each month, averaged across the full record (since 1940). Daylight is the time from sunrise to sunset. Record high/low are the most extreme values in the ERA5 dataset (modelled since 1940), so they can differ from official weather-station readings.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rain | Daylight | Record high | Record low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.8° | 9.5° | 86 mm | 11.8 h | 24.5° (1964) | 3.1° (1977) |
| February | 18.9° | 9.9° | 103 mm | 11.9 h | 25.4° (1964) | 3.3° (1985) |
| March | 18.7° | 10.4° | 144 mm | 12.0 h | 24.6° (2005) | 5.2° (1964) |
| April | 18.2° | 10.7° | 165 mm | 12.1 h | 23.3° (1958) | 7.1° (2017) |
| May | 17.9° | 10.6° | 117 mm | 12.2 h | 21.9° (2010) | 7.2° (2008) |
| June | 17.2° | 10.1° | 62 mm | 12.3 h | 21.9° (1958) | 6.7° (1983) |
| July | 17.0° | 9.7° | 47 mm | 12.2 h | 21.7° (1980) | 5.5° (1985) |
| August | 17.9° | 9.5° | 32 mm | 12.2 h | 22.4° (1980) | 2.0° (1978) |
| September | 18.7° | 9.6° | 43 mm | 12.0 h | 23.5° (1957) | 5.6° (1956) |
| October | 18.7° | 9.9° | 116 mm | 11.9 h | 24.1° (1957) | 5.7° (1964) |
| November | 18.7° | 10.0° | 137 mm | 11.8 h | 23.3° (1963) | 5.7° (1944) |
| December | 18.7° | 9.8° | 97 mm | 11.7 h | 24.0° (1962) | 4.0° (1989) |
How it's changed
Year-by-year signals from 1940 to today.Climate stripes
Annual mean shifted from 1940–1949 to 2016–2025 by +1.4°C.
Each vertical stripe is one year. Color encodes how much that year's annual mean differed from the long-term average. Average = each year's annual mean compared to the average of all years (1940–2026). cooler ← → warmer
Annual mean temperature
Long-term trend: +0.18°C per decade.
One point per year, showing the temperature averaged across the whole year. The dashed line is the least-squares long-term trend. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Seasonal warming
Dec–Feb is warming fastest: +0.19°C per decade.
Each faint line is one three-month period's average per year; the bold dashed line is its long-term trend. Different parts of the year often warm at different rates. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Hot days vs frost days
Days ≥ 25°C per year: 0.0 early in the record → 0.0 recently. Frost days: 0 → 0.
Thin lines are raw yearly counts; thick lines are the smoothed trend that removes year-to-year noise. The hot-day threshold is auto-picked per city so the line actually moves. Average = a centered 5-year rolling average to smooth weather noise.
Yearly hot & cold extremes
All-time high in 1964, all-time low in 1978: 25.4°C / 2.0°C.
One point per year: the single hottest and coldest day recorded that year.
Annual rainfall
~1,148 mm/year on average. Last decade: +13% vs that average. Long-term trend: +2 mm per decade.
One bar per year of total rainfall. Dashed line is the long-term average. Average = the average annual rainfall across every year of record (1940–2026).
Day-by-day grid
Each tiny square is one calendar day across the full record, about 30,000 days per city. Use the mode switch above the chart: Anomaly colors each day by how far it ran from the historical average for that date (red = warmer, blue = cooler), Daily mean temp shows the absolute mean temperature for the day (useful to see seasons and heatwaves), and Precipitation shows daily rainfall (useful to spot wet/dry seasons and droughts). Average = the long-term average for that calendar date (1940–2026).
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