Climate averages 1991–2020
Medellín weather
in March.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Medellín: daytime highs average 24.8°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 268 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bello (10 km away). In March its highs average 25.3°C, about as warm as Medellín, with 268 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Medellín ranks 33rd of 46 for the warmest March highs and joint 37th of 46 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 46 cities is 27.1°C; Medellín is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 24.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 268 mm to 335 mm.
The annual picture
March 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, selected | 24.8°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 268 | 28.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 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
March in nearby cities
- Bello in MarchColombia · 10 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 15.6°C · 268 mm rain
- Caldas in MarchColombia · 19 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 13.5°C · 214 mm rain
- Rionegro in MarchColombia · 24 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 13.2°C · 267 mm rain
- La Dorada in MarchColombia · 134 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 22.5°C · 156 mm rain
- Quibdó in MarchColombia · 135 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.1°C · 467 mm rain
- Montelíbano in MarchColombia · 194 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 24.7°C · 89 mm rain
- Chigorodó in MarchColombia · 200 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.7°C · 141 mm rain
- Ibagué in MarchColombia · 205 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.5°C · 304 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.