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9–17 in Medellín vs UTC
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- Independencia de Cartagena16 Nov 2026
- La inmaculada concepción8 Dec 2026
- Navidad25 Dec 2026
- Año Nuevo1 Jan 2027
- Día de los Reyes Magos11 Jan 2027
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About Medellín
Home to roughly 2,569,007 residents, Medellín is a large regional centre in Colombia. The city sits at 1495 m above sea level, an elevated setting that moderates its summers.
The America/Bogota zone governs civic time in Medellín; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Sun behaviour here follows the equatorial pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Locally, prices are quoted in COP and the international dialing code is +57. This page exposes Medellín's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Medellín
The current local time in Medellín, Colombia is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Medellín uses the IANA time zone America/Bogota, currently UTC−5.
Whether Medellín observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Bogota) is the source of truth.
Medellín is currently in the same time as New York.
Medellín is currently 5 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Medellín are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (6.2442, -75.5812).
Colombia uses the COP currency and the +57 international dialing code.
Medellín sits at 6.2442° N, 75.5812° W, 1495 m above sea level, in Colombia.