Climate averages 1991–2020
Bogotá weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Bogotá: daytime highs average 18.3°C and nights cool to about 11.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 140 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes April a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 13 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Soacha (15 km away). In April its highs average 18.3°C, about as warm as Bogotá, with 259 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Bogotá ranks joint 43rd of 46 for the warmest April highs and joint 8th of 46 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 46 cities is 26.4°C; Bogotá is 8.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 18.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 140 mm to 91 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Bogotá climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.9°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 69 | 17.3 | 11.912 h |
| February | 19.1°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 90 | 18.3 | 12.012 h |
| March | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 132 | 22.4 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 18.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 140 | 21.5 | 12.212 h |
| May | 18.0°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 91 | 18.1 | 12.312 h |
| June | 18.0°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 43 | 12.5 | 12.412 h |
| July | 18.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 37 | 11.7 | 12.412 h |
| August | 19.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 23 | 7.6 | 12.312 h |
| September | 19.6°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 33 | 10.8 | 12.112 h |
| October | 18.7°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 99 | 18.8 | 12.012 h |
| November | 18.3°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 127 | 22.2 | 11.912 h |
| December | 18.5°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 83 | 19.3 | 11.912 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
April in nearby cities
- Soacha in AprilColombia · 15 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 11.7°C · 259 mm rain
- Chía in AprilColombia · 28 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 11.4°C · 148 mm rain
- Fusagasugá in AprilColombia · 44 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 16.3°C · 254 mm rain
- Zipaquirá in AprilColombia · 47 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 10.9°C · 212 mm rain
- Villavicencio in AprilColombia · 73 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 19.4°C · 253 mm rain
- La Dorada in AprilColombia · 113 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 22.4°C · 151 mm rain
- Ibagué in AprilColombia · 126 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 18.4°C · 377 mm rain
- Sogamoso in AprilColombia · 177 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 11.9°C · 169 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Bogotá) is explained once on the Bogotá year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.