Current time in Medellín, Colombia
The current local time in Medellín is shown below. Medellín observes COT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Medellín does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- America/Bogota
- Standard abbreviation
- COT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇨🇴 Colombia
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Medellín?
Medellín shares Colombia's UTC-5 offset year-round with no daylight saving, the same arrangement applied across the entire country. The city's mountain position has historically given it a substantial role in Colombia's coffee trade, with international trading hours requiring coordination with the commodity exchanges in New York. The altitude produces what locals call eternal spring weather, with average temperatures of around 22 degrees year-round and minimal seasonal variation in day length, removing any climate-driven rationale for clock changes. Time alignment with Lima, Quito, and Bogotá is identical.
What are the working hours in Medellín?
Medellín's working economy has been substantially reshaped over the past three decades from its drug-cartel-era reputation, with the city now hosting a growing technology and digital-services sector, the Ruta N innovation district, and substantial textile and fashion manufacturing. Office hours run 08:00 to 18:00 with a long lunch typically taken from 12:00 to 14:00. The Feria de las Flores in early August, a week of cultural events centred on traditional flower-growers from the surrounding hills, is the city's largest annual public festival.
Where is Medellín?
Medellín occupies the narrow Aburrá Valley of north-western Colombia, a long narrow basin in the Andes at around 1,500 metres elevation. The municipal population is around 2.5 million, with the wider Aburrá metropolitan area at around 4 million across the ten neighbouring municipalities. The mountain walls rising on both sides of the valley constrain urban expansion to the linear north-south axis, producing one of the most densely populated narrow urban corridors in Latin America. The Medellín River runs the length of the valley floor.