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Bogotá, Colombia

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Bogotá for remote work

UTC−5 America/Bogota · UTC−5 all year

Photo: Felipe Restrepo Acosta, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

US Eastern team 7–8 h shared 9–5 · their day is 09:00–17:00 here
US Pacific team 5–6 h shared 9–5 · their day is 12:00–20:00 here
UK team 2–3 h shared 9–5 · their day is 04:00–12:00 here
Central Europe team 1–2 h shared 9–5 · their day is 03:00–11:00 here
Price level 41 Low: household prices Colombia-wide vs US = 100 (2025)
Comfortable months 12 / 12 all year

Your team's working day, on Bogotá's clock

Today (1 November 2026). Each bar is 24 hours of local time in Bogotá; the shaded column is a local 9–5.

Employer's 9–5 Overlap with your 9–5 Your 9–5 Night (22–7)

US Eastern 09:00–17:00
8 h
US Pacific 12:00–20:00
5 h
UK 04:00–12:00
3 h
Central Europe 03:00–11:00
2 h

Colombia does not change its clocks, so every shift in shared hours comes from your employer's side.

Shared hours through the year

Hours of a 9–5 in both places that coincide, lowest–highest across each month's working days. "Awake" stretches your day to 7:00–22:00.

MonthUS EasternUS PacificUKCentral Europe
Jan8 h awake 8 h5 h awake 8 h3 h awake 5 h2 h awake 4 h
Feb8 h awake 8 h5 h awake 8 h3 h awake 5 h2 h awake 4 h
Mar7–8 h awake 8 h5–6 h awake 8 h2–3 h awake 4–5 h1–2 h awake 3–4 h
Apr7 h awake 8 h6 h awake 8 h2 h awake 4 h1 h awake 3 h
May7 h awake 8 h6 h awake 8 h2 h awake 4 h1 h awake 3 h
Jun7 h awake 8 h6 h awake 8 h2 h awake 4 h1 h awake 3 h
Jul7 h awake 8 h6 h awake 8 h2 h awake 4 h1 h awake 3 h
Aug7 h awake 8 h6 h awake 8 h2 h awake 4 h1 h awake 3 h
Sep7 h awake 8 h6 h awake 8 h2 h awake 4 h1 h awake 3 h
Oct7 h awake 8 h6 h awake 8 h2–3 h awake 4–5 h1–2 h awake 3–4 h
Nov8 h awake 8 h5 h awake 8 h3 h awake 5 h2 h awake 4 h
Dec8 h awake 8 h5 h awake 8 h3 h awake 5 h2 h awake 4 h

Weather for working, month by month

January: Great (9.9), high 21°C21°JanFebruary: Great (10.0), high 21°C21°FebMarch: Great (9.5), high 21°C21°MarApril: Great (8.4), high 20°C20°AprMay: Great (8.6), high 20°C20°MayJune: Great (8.5), high 19°C19°JunJuly: Great (8.5), high 19°C19°JulAugust: Great (8.9), high 19°C19°AugSeptember: Great (9.1), high 20°C20°SepOctober: Good (7.9), high 20°C20°OctNovember: Great (8.2), high 20°C20°NovDecember: Great (9.8), high 20°C20°Dec

GreatGoodFairPoor How the score works

MonthHighLowRainDew pointDaylightScore
Jan21°C8°C36 mm10°C comfortable11.8 h9.9
Feb21°C8°C61 mm11°C comfortable11.9 h10.0
Mar21°C9°C91 mm11°C comfortable12.0 h9.5
Apr20°C10°C148 mm12°C comfortable12.1 h8.4
May20°C10°C127 mm12°C comfortable12.2 h8.6
Jun19°C10°C107 mm11°C comfortable12.3 h8.5
Jul19°C9°C94 mm11°C comfortable12.2 h8.5
Aug19°C9°C79 mm11°C comfortable12.2 h8.9
Sep20°C9°C99 mm11°C comfortable12.0 h9.1
Oct20°C9°C166 mm11°C comfortable11.9 h7.9
Nov20°C9°C149 mm11°C comfortable11.8 h8.2
Dec20°C8°C71 mm11°C comfortable11.7 h9.8

TerraClimate 1991–2020 averages for the ~4 km grid cell. Daylight is computed for mid-month.

Getting there and settling in

Population
8,034,649 (2024)
Elevation
2582 m
Airports
El Dorado International Airport (BOG), 8 km
Time zone
America/Bogota
Visas
Rules depend on your passport and change often; NomadCritic does not summarise them. Check Colombia's official government or embassy website.
Read more
Bogotá on Wikipedia

Travel advice

US: Level 3 Reconsider Travel. State Department

UK FCDO The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to parts of the country. Updated 2026-10-30. GOV.UK

Checked 2026-11-01 (US) and 2026-11-01 (UK). Read the official advice before you go.

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