Clima en Medellín en diciembre
Medellín en diciembre: caluroso, muy lluvioso, con aire bochornoso — bien si toleras 22 días de lluvia.
Actualizado: septiembre de 2026 · normales climáticas del reanálisis ERA5
n.º 3 de 12 meses en Medellín · n.º 521 de 1413 destinos para visitar en diciembre · confort 78/100 (nivel B)
- Días
- 28°C
- Noches
- 18°C
- Días de lluvia
- 22
- Sol
- 9.6 h
- Humedad
- 85%
- Horas de luz
- 12 h

Notas de viajeros sobre Medellín en diciembre
The Medellin forum's answer to December weather is about the shape of the day, not the month: mornings and early afternoons are gorgeous, and it tends to rain after two or three o'clock, so posters tell visitors to put the indoor half of the plan there. What falls is spotty and comes and goes, sometimes with thunder, rather than settling in for the day. The other December fact is the alumbrados - the Christmas lights switch on around 2 December and run to 6 January, and the whole month is festive, with the riverside displays drawing very large crowds. The record explains the hedging: 22 precipitation days but only 150.7mm between them, 28C days feeling like 31C, 17.8C nights, humidity near 85 percent, 9.6 hours of sun, AQI 53.
Otros meses en Medellín
Regulars are specific that rain here varies so much by neighborhood that it can be genuinely pouring in Poblado while a nearby area like Laureles stays sunny at the very same hour, weather apps notoriously unreliable at capturing that hyperlocal split. Our row backs that hot, genuinely wet read, 28.7C reading as a hot 33C, over 18.1C nights, with a substantial 222.6mm of rain across an extraordinary 26.5 days and humidity at 84 percent. Regulars are consistent that a downpour typically lasts only 30 minutes to an hour, usually arriving in late afternoon, with plenty of nice weather still available earlier in the day. A compact umbrella carried at all times is the standard advice rather than trusting any single forecast. The record: 9.9 hours of sun, a 6.6 kph wind and AQI 49.
The city of eternal spring earns the name in our data: every month of the year tops out between 27 and 29C, and June reads 28.2C over 17.8C, which matches the board's mid-eighties by day and mid-sixties at night almost exactly. The rain column looks alarming at 26.7 days, and regulars defuse it before you can worry - it rains nearly every day but not all day. Sunny morning, shower from about four, sixty to ninety minutes, done. Plan the outdoors for the first half of the day and the 215.7mm stops mattering. At 87.3 percent humidity 28C reads as 32C, which is the one real cost. The record: 9.6 hours of sun, an almost still 6 kph wind and AQI 47.
The eternal spring is real in the sense that matters: regulars put the whole year at roughly 77 to 82F by day and 58 to 63F at night, and our February reads 28.9C over 18C. They call February part of the drier season, December to March, and our row looks like a flat contradiction at 166.7mm across 21.5 precipitation days. Their own description resolves it - it rarely rains all day here, sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon but not usually both - which makes those 21.5 days about eight millimetres each. Flash afternoon thunderstorms are the usual form. The record: humidity 82 percent, 9.9 hours of sun, a 5.4 kph wind and AQI 56.
August in the city of eternal spring is warm, flowery and wetter than the nickname implies - our row counts 24 precipitation days carrying 178.8mm, which is most days of the month. The forum's correction is about timing rather than quantity: when it rains here it is usually late afternoon, evening or the middle of the night, often predictable almost to the hour, so the daylight hours mostly survive. They are also blunt that Colombian weather apps are useless inland, forecasting rain and thunderstorms every single day, because microclimates, mountains and altitude defeat them. August still has plenty of flowers, if fewer than July. The record: 29C days that feel like 33C, 18C nights, humidity 82 percent and 10.3 hours of sun.
Las notas de todo el año están en la página general de Medellín. Añade tu propia nota desde la ficha de Medellín en el mapa.
Normales climáticas de Medellín — diciembre
Medias mensuales del reanálisis ERA5. El AQI es el índice de calidad del aire de EE. UU. (US AQI) medio del mes.
Afluencia en Medellín en diciembre
Cuánta gente hay en el propio lugar: vacaciones escolares y masivas, los meses que marcó el editor y cuánto atrae su clima. Nunca cuenta en la puntuación de confort.
Máxima afluenciaThe Monday puentes, Alumbrados navidenos, Year-end holidays en Colombia(estimado)
Máxima afluenciaConcurridoTemporada mediaTranquilo
Los mejores meses para el clima de Medellín
Ordenados según la propia puntuación de confort climático de este destino a lo largo del año, algo distinto de cuánta gente hay (consulta Afluencia, más arriba).
Mejor climaEl mejor clima de Medellín llega en enero, julio y diciembre: ventanas separadas, no una temporada continua.
diciembre incluye La Alborada.
Mejor climaClima aceptableClima más duro
Qué hay en Medellín en diciembre
Eventos de temporada recurrentes, espectáculos naturales, cierres y festivos, seleccionados y con fuente.
- Festivo
The Monday puentes
1 Ene – 31 DicFiesta nacionalMucha genteColombia moves most of its public holidays onto a Monday, so the country takes a long weekend roughly every month. Guatape, Jardin and the road out of the valley are solid on every one of them. Fuente ↗
- Apertura
Alumbrados navidenos
28 Nov – 14 Ene · normalmenteNavidad y Año NuevoMucha genteThe utility company strings millions of lights along the river and the main avenues and switches them on at the end of November, then leaves them up into mid-January. Weekend evenings on the river walk are shoulder to shoulder. Fuente ↗
- Festival
La Alborada
30 Nov – 1 DicNavidad y Año NuevoRiesgoAt midnight on the last night of November the whole valley sets off fireworks at once for hours, an unofficial start to Christmas with an ugly history behind it. Nobody in Medellin sleeps through it. Fuente ↗
- Temporada
The drier weeks between the rains
15 Dic – 10 MarTemporada secaRain here runs on two cycles rather than one wet season, and the gaps are roughly late December to early March and again through July and August. Those are the weeks the pueblos day trip actually works.
- Festivo
Novenas and the December break
16 Dic – 6 EneNavidad y Año NuevoMucha genteReserva prontoNine nights of neighbourhood novenas from the sixteenth, then a fortnight in which Colombians who live abroad come home. Flights into Rionegro and city apartments both price like a peak season, because it is one. Fuente ↗
Cerca, y con algo en marcha
A menos de 300 km de Medellín —una excursión de un día o un trayecto corto— y con algo en marcha este mes. Nunca cuenta en la puntuación de confort.
¿Dónde está Medellín?
Medellín en diciembre — preguntas frecuentes
- ¿Es diciembre un buen momento para visitar Medellín?
- Medellín en diciembre: caluroso, muy lluvioso, con aire bochornoso — bien si toleras 22 días de lluvia. Es el mes n.º 3 de 12 en Medellín según la puntuación de confort de SeasonMap (78/100).
- ¿Qué tiempo hace en Medellín en diciembre?
- En diciembre, Medellín tiene una máxima media diaria de 28°C y una mínima de 17.8°C, con unos 150.7 mm de lluvia repartidos en unos 22 días de lluvia.
- ¿Cómo es la calidad del aire en Medellín en diciembre?
- En diciembre, Medellín tiene un índice de calidad del aire (US AQI) medio de unos 53.
A menos de 300 km: Festival de Luces en Villa de Leyva, 5–7 Dic y Christmas lights en Guatapé, hacia 15 Nov – 10 Ene.