Weather in Bogotá in December

A good month. December is a solid month to be in Bogotá. You should expect rain on 16 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

December ranks 4 of 12 in Bogotá: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 16 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average December reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 23.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 5.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 39 mm — roughly 38% of the month's rain in one day.

December is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest December on record still delivered 186 mm against 31 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 103 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 3.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 79%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 17.9 °C in November, 18.5 here, 19.6 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: January brings 6 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in December

Bogotá sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.9 hours in December, against a range of just 0.5 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 11.9 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 2582 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

December in Bogotá versus nearby

If Bogotá is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Medellín is close enough to be a coin toss — 5.6 °C warmer, 7 days more rain. Cali is the weaker option in December — 11 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: December works, with January the better month by 16 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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