Weather in Bogotá in February

A good month. February works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 20.1 °C, lows 9.8 °C, and rain falls on 13 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 2 of 12 in Bogotá. Only January scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 13 days, 2 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 February reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 26.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 4.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 40 mm — roughly 56% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 18 mm in the driest year against 155 mm in the wettest, around an average of 71 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 4.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 19.6 °C in January, 20.1 here, 19.6 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: March brings 7 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in February

Bogotá sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12 hours in February, 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

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

February in Bogotá versus nearby

If Bogotá is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Medellín is the weaker option in February — 5.4 °C warmer, 5 days more rain. Cali is the weaker option in February — 10.5 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 5 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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