Climate and average weather in Santa Fe de Antioquia

In Santa Fe de Antioquia, the weather is warm, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around April.

Best: mid December to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Santa Fe de Antioquia typically varies from 13°C to 24°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 27°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while November is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Santa Fe de Antioquia for warm-weather activities are from mid July to late August and mid December to early March.

Hottest
Aug
24°
Coldest
Nov
13°
Wettest
Apr
389 mm
Driest
Jan
82 mm
Rain / yr
2710 mm
256 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
571 m
6.6°N
Clearest
Jan
71% cloud

Santa Fe de Antioquia weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid December to early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Santa Fe de Antioquia, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Santa Fe de Antioquia stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 24°C and low of 13°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 13°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2313
Feb2313
Mar2313
Apr2314
May2314
Jun2313
Jul2413
Aug2413
Sep2313
Oct2213
Nov2213
Dec2213

Average hourly temperature in Santa Fe de Antioquia

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 24°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 13°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Santa Fe de Antioquia weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan23° / 13°8212.811.76.1
Feb23° / 13°12715.411.85.6
Mar23° / 13°25822.6124.6
Apr23° / 14°38926.212.13.9
May23° / 14°35726.712.33.9
Jun23° / 13°17421.112.44.6
Jul24° / 13°13218.612.35.2
Aug24° / 13°1571812.25.2
Sep23° / 13°24122.5124.5
Oct22° / 13°32327.211.93.8
Nov22° / 13°31225.911.73.9
Dec22° / 13°16018.811.65.1

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Santa Fe de Antioquia gets about 2710 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.0 months, from around Sep 8 to Dec 8, peaking in October at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 25.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 389 mm over about 26 wet days; January is the driest, with 82 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 29 · 91%Jan 25 · 39%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4313
Feb5415
Mar7323
Apr8726
May8527
Jun7121
Jul5919
Aug5918
Sep7523
Oct8727
Nov8626
Dec6119

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Santa Fe de Antioquia collects about 2710 mm of rain across 256 wet days — roughly 226 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 389 mm, while January is the driest at just 82 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec82127258389357174132157241323312160
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan8213
Feb12715
Mar25823
Apr38926
May35727
Jun17421
Jul13219
Aug15718
Sep24123
Oct32327
Nov31226
Dec16019

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Santa Fe de Antioquia, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around December 5 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around March 24. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 27% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 25 and lasts for 8.4 months, ending around December 4. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 99% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 3 · 29%May 18 · 0%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2773
Feb2278
Mar1189
Apr298
May199
Jun397
Jul496
Aug595
Sep397
Oct199
Nov496
Dec1783

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 1, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:236:02
Feb11.86:246:11
Mar12.06:146:12
Apr12.15:596:08
May12.35:516:08
Jun12.45:526:15
Jul12.35:596:19
Aug12.26:016:14
Sep12.05:575:59
Oct11.95:535:44
Nov11.75:585:39
Dec11.66:115:48

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Santa Fe de Antioquia averages about 1 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 3 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.2 months, from around Dec 8 to Mar 14. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 3 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is April, down near 0 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the January peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedJan 23 daysApr 180 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Santa Fe de Antioquia, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in May, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 13% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 16 · 100%May 2 · 83%humidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan40601
Feb32672
Mar14824
Apr38412
May28613
Jun18802
Jul51490
Aug52480
Sep29710
Oct9892
Nov5914
Dec18811

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Santa Fe de Antioquia is steady company: average speeds sit near 3 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJul 23 · 4 km/hNov 4 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan3calm
Feb3calm
Mar3calm
Apr3calm
May3calm
Jun3calm
Jul4calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov3calm
Dec3calm

Best time to visit Santa Fe de Antioquia

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Santa Fe de Antioquia throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late December, Santa Fe de Antioquia is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Santa Fe de Antioquia for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid July to late August and again from mid December to early March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 26 · 6.3

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan6.1good
Feb5.6good
Mar4.6fair
Apr3.9fair
May4.0fair
Jun4.6fair
Jul5.2fair
Aug5.2fair
Sep4.5fair
Oct3.8fair
Nov3.9fair
Dec5.1fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Santa Fe de Antioquia for hot-weather activities run from late June to early September and again from late December to late February, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 28 · 4.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Santa Fe de Antioquia, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Santa Fe de Antioquia packs about the same all year — highs hold near 24°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Santa Fe de Antioquia sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 13°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Santa Fe de Antioquia by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Santa Fe de Antioquia peaks around February 21 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 at about 11 (extreme).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 21UV 14Dec 14UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Santa Fe de Antioquia

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan86
Feb86.5
Mar86.5
Apr86
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.56
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Santa Fe de Antioquia by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Santa Fe de Antioquia is worst in March — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (October, 12 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateMar 1525 µg/m³Oct 2112 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar25Moderate
Apr17Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun13Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep12Moderate
Oct12Good
Nov12Good
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Santa Fe de Antioquia is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Santa Fe de Antioquia banks about 2,919 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan241
Feb225
Mar251
Apr243
May254
Jun245
Jul257
Aug261
Sep244
Oct237
Nov225
Dec237

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Santa Fe de Antioquia receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.2 and 5.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around Jun 7 to Sep 29. The brightest month is August, averaging about 5.7 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is November, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 25% less than the August peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseAug 55.7 kWhNov 164.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr4.8Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec4.6Bright

Where is Santa Fe de Antioquia?

Santa Fe de Antioquia sits at 6.6°N, 75.8°W, 571 m above sea level, in Colombia. The nearest listed city is Bello, 39 km away.

Topography around Santa Fe de Antioquia

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Santa Fe de Antioquia.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Santa Fe de Antioquia has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 659 m around an average of 597 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,868 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,775 m.

The land around Santa Fe de Antioquia is covered by trees (50%) and grassland (42%) within 3 km, trees (68%) and grassland (30%) within 16 km, and trees (70%) and grassland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
659 m
16 km
2,868 m
80 km
3,775 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Bello 39 km · Frontino 41 km · Santa Rosa de Osos 42 km · Copacabana 42 km · Urrao 43 km · Medellin 45 km · Itagüí 49 km · La Estrella 49 km

Colombia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 / 240 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 38% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$8,562
2025
Happiness
6.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
74%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
24.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
15.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 480
Religion
Roman Catholic 64%Protestant 17%none 14%atheist 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Santa Fe de Antioquia (6.5569°, -75.8281°, elevation 571 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).