Guatapé weather by month

The best time to visit Guatapé is January, July and August — 93/100 in July, 25°C and 11 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, June to September (88/100 on average).

The worst month is November at 64/100 — warm, soaked, clean air. See November →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Colombia →

Guatapé🇨🇴 Colombia · Colombian Andes · City93
  1. 88Jan
  2. 83Feb
  3. 72Mar
  4. 65Apr
  5. 73May
  6. 87Jun
  7. 93Jul
  8. 90Aug
  9. 82Sep
  10. 68Oct
  11. 64Nov
  12. 81Dec

Best season: June to September (88/100 on average) · worst November (64/100)

Days
25°C
Nights
15°C
Wet days
11
Sun
10.7 h
Humidity
75%
Daylight
12 h
Guatapé, Colombia
Photo: Camilo Ospina · Pexels

Guatapé, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Guatapé is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.

MonthScoreTierHighRainSunCrowdsOn
Jan88A23°C17 d10 hPeak1
Feb83A24°C21 d10 hShoulder—
Mar72B24°C27 d10 hPeak1
Apr65C24°C26 d9 hPeak2
May73B24°C24 d9 hShoulder1
Jun87A24°C19 d10 hPeak1
Jul93S25°C11 d11 hPeak3
Aug90S25°C14 d10 hBusy1
Sep82A25°C19 d10 hShoulder1
Oct68C24°C27 d9 hBusy1
Nov64C23°C28 d9 hPeak2
Dec81A23°C21 d10 hPeak1

What's on in Guatapé through the year

Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.

March
  • Semana Santa29 Mar – 5 AprHoliday
April
  • First rainy season1 Apr – 31 May (usually)Season
June
  • June long weekends and school break8 Jun – 15 Jul (usually)Holiday
July
  • Fiestas de la Virgen del Carmen16 JulFestival
  • Feria de las Flores in Medellin30 Jul – 12 Aug (usually)Festival
September
  • Second rainy season15 Sep – 15 Nov (usually)Season
November
  • Christmas lights15 Nov – 10 Jan (usually)Holiday

Everything on in Guatapé through the year →

Crowds in Guatapé in July

How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.

Peak crowdsJune long weekends and school break, Fiestas de la Virgen del Carmen, Mid-year recess in Colombia(estimated)

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Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet

Traveller notes on Guatapé

What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.

Forum posters describe January through March as offering notably better weather than the often-cloudy norm around Medellin, the coffee region and Guatape, with temperatures in Guatape itself typically in the low 20sC. Posters are consistent that rain here falls sporadically rather than as a sustained washout, and that most planned activities remain doable even on an unlucky day. Posters flag real microclimates shaped by the surrounding mountains and valleys - it can be raining in one spot while staying sunny just a mile away - making general weather reports for the wider region less useful than checking conditions close to the visit itself. Posters generally rate January as one of the more reliable months for exploring Guatape's rock and reservoir.
Tripadvisor community · January · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Guatapé's forum describes July as following a near-daily rhythm — regulars say it's almost always the same pattern, rain in the morning that clears by afternoon, or the reverse, rather than a day lost entirely to weather. Worth building flexibility into the day's plans around whichever half turns out clear.
Tripadvisor community · July · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Regulars are specific one recent visitor described conditions around Guatape and nearby El Penol as torrential and near non-stop for weeks, muddy ground underfoot, while a long-term Medellin resident pushed back on that same stretch, saying it hadn't been cloudy and rainy every day and they'd been applying sunscreen and exercising outdoors regularly. Our row backs that mild, genuinely wet read, 19.8C over 14.7C nights feeling 15C, with a substantial 91.5mm of rain across 13.9 days and humidity at 73.7 percent. Regulars are consistent the honest read lands in between those two accounts, real and sometimes heavy rain a genuine feature of this window but patchy and variable day to day rather than a constant washout. The record: 10.4 hours of sun, a 10.3 kph wind and AQI 37.
TorrentialButPatchyNotConstant · August · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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