Medellin is typically warm in January.

Maximum temperatures go up compared to the previous month from +77°F to +79°F. The minimum temperature also goes down from +61°F to +59°F.

It’s generally warm, but pack a long-sleeve shirt for evenings.

Take a look at how January is compared to other months in Medellin:

January weather is still as ok as in December. It’s getting warmer as January arrives. The average maximum temperature goes up from +77°F to +79°F during the day. As January arrives, the amount of rainfall goes down. On average, the rainfall volume decreases from 138 mm to 96 mm. It feels drier, as humidity decreases from 82% to 80%. The average wind speed doesn’t change much during January, staying around 0 m/s. The amount of sunny days stay about the same, averaging 0 sunny days during the month.

February brings much the same weather, it remains ok.

The climate in Medellin in January has not changed that much over the last 43 years.

The average temperature was the lowest in 1984 (+75°F) and the highest in 2019 (+83°F). The driest year was 2002 with only 1628 mm of rainfall, and the wettest year was 2008 with 3155 mm.

For this page, we’ve looked at the typical weather in Medellin, based on historical hourly weather data from January 1, 1979, to December 31, 2023.

For past dates, we show actual recorded data at the location at that time. Forecasts are based on recorded weather during that day of the year, averaged over the total years for which we have records (unless stated otherwise). The daily temperature is the highest recorded temperature in the shadow during that day.