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Bogotá in March

Mild and wet, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

March in Bogotá is mild: highs near 69°F, lows near 52°F. Rain falls on about six days a week, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 5 minutes.March in Bogotá is mild: highs near 21°C, lows near 11°C. Rain falls on about six days a week, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 5 minutes.

High
69°F21°Caverage
Low
52°F11°Caverage
Wet days
6a week · 87% of days
Daylight
12h 05mon average

Is March a good time to visit Bogotá?

A good month, just outside Bogotá's best months, which run from July to August.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How March sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 69°F in March, against 68°F to 71°F through the year.Highs near 21°C in March, against 20°C to 22°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

87% of days in March, against 38% to 89% through the year.

Cloud cover

84% cover in March, against 72% to 86% through the year.

Daylight

12h 05m in March, against 11h 51m to 12h 23m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with March shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. February70°21°low 51°low 11°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  2. March69°21°low 52°low 11°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  3. April69°21°low 53°low 12°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.

Where Bogotá sits, in March

America/Bogota
this place
typical high in March 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-March
6:03 AMsets 6:09 PM
Above the sea
2,550 mhigh country
Latitude
4.7°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Medellín246 km north-west

The land around Bogotá, shaded by its typical high in March, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Colombia in March

high · low · wet days
See March on the planning mapThe whole year in Bogotá

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Bogotá. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (2,550 m) against the climate model's (2,604 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (2,550 m) against the climate model's (2,604 m). Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.