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 →
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, 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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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