Cartagena

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ✅ Quick Answer December to March is the best time: it is the main dry season with sunny skies on the Caribbean coast and in the Andes. A second dry spell in July and August is also excellent, while the green shoulder weeks in between offer the same warmth at lower prices. The Best Time to Visit Colombia, in One Sentence A friend who’d been three times told me flatly: “Don’t go in October, the whole country drowns.” So naturally I went in October, because the flights into Cartagena were almost half what they’d cost over Christmas. And here’s the thing nobody warned me about: the rain came, sure, but it came as a single furious twenty-minute downpour each afternoon, the kind you watch from a balcony with a cold limonada de coco, and then the old walled city steamed dry under a gold late-day sun. We had the ramparts almost to ourselves at sunset. I’ll explain why that “drowning” month was secretly the smart move further down. ...