Climate averages 1991–2020
Medellín weather
in April.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 7th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Medellín: daytime highs average 24.2°C and nights cool to about 15.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 335 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bello (10 km away). In April its highs average 24.7°C, about as warm as Medellín, with 335 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Medellín ranks 33rd of 46 for the warmest April highs and joint 41st of 46 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 46 cities is 26.4°C; Medellín is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 335 mm to 337 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
Medellín climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24.2°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 134 | 21.3 | 11.812 h |
| February | 24.8°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 169 | 22.9 | 11.912 h |
| March | 24.8°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 268 | 28.1 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 24.2°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 335 | 28.6 | 12.312 h |
| May | 24.0°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 337 | 29.5 | 12.412 h |
| June | 24.5°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 208 | 26.7 | 12.512 h |
| July | 25.0°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 172 | 25.6 | 12.412 h |
| August | 25.5°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 180 | 25.0 | 12.312 h |
| September | 24.8°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 247 | 27.2 | 12.212 h |
| October | 23.6°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 307 | 29.2 | 12.012 h |
| November | 22.9°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 294 | 28.6 | 11.812 h |
| December | 23.6°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 193 | 23.9 | 11.812 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
- Bello in AprilColombia · 10 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 16.0°C · 335 mm rain
- Caldas in AprilColombia · 19 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 13.8°C · 290 mm rain
- Rionegro in AprilColombia · 24 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 13.5°C · 319 mm rain
- La Dorada in AprilColombia · 134 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 22.4°C · 151 mm rain
- Quibdó in AprilColombia · 135 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 609 mm rain
- Montelíbano in AprilColombia · 194 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.1°C · 169 mm rain
- Chigorodó in AprilColombia · 200 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.4°C · 284 mm rain
- Ibagué in AprilColombia · 205 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 18.4°C · 377 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 Medellín) is explained once on the Medellín year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Bello lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.