Best time to visit Colombia

Colombia does not have a single best season. Its 5 destinations peak across 3 different months, which means an itinerary that moves around the country will be in the right season for some of it and the wrong one for the rest — worth building the route around.

Averaged across every destination listed, Colombia is at its best in January, scoring 76 out of 100, with February close behind at 74. May is the weakest month nationally at 54. The window is narrow: only 3 months come within eight points of the best, so an itinerary covering several of these places should be built around that rather than around any one city's own peak.

Colombia is not one climate. Barranquilla averages 31 °C across the year against 19 °C in Bogotá — a 12 °C gap wide enough that advice for one is close to useless for the other. Rainfall is broadly similar throughout, from 167 wet days a year in Barranquilla to 286 in Medellín.