Bogotá

Fincaraíz listings on 29 September 2026, filter “2 bedrooms”, first results page, 21 apartments per neighborhood, median asking price excluding the building fee. Teusaquillo: 81 listings, median 3,200,000 pesos, 67 m², 16 of 21 apartments in stratum 4. Cedritos: 71 listings, median 3,200,000, 69 m², strata 4 and 5. Usaquén: 538 listings, median 3,400,000, 78 m², strata 2 to 6. Chapinero: 184 listings, median 4,342,400, 73 m², huge spread: in stratum 3 about 2.9 million, in stratum 6 about 8 million; Fincaraíz’s own average for the section is 4,531,813. Chicó Norte: 219 listings, median 5,800,000, 88 m², only strata 5 and 6; Fincaraíz’s own average for the section is 7,712,399. On top of the rent there is almost always a cuota de administración, the building maintenance fee: where it is listed separately, the median is about 607k pesos in stratum 4 and about 1.1 million in stratum 6. On the first page almost all listings are promoted, so the sample is skewed upward. In dollars at a rate of about 3,300 pesos: 3.2 million is roughly $970, 5.8 million about $1,760.

Fincaraíz on 29 September 2026, three-bedroom apartments for sale, first results page. Teusaquillo: 353 listings, median of the 21 visible ones 812,999,000 pesos with a median area of 103 m², range 520–1350 million; Fincaraíz itself reports an average price for the section of 744,603,529 pesos and a minimum from 390 million with an average area of 114 m². Usaquén: 3,474 listings, median of the visible ones 850,000,000 pesos and 110 m², spread from 263 million to 4.4 billion; by stratum the median is 585 million in stratum 4, 915 million in stratum 5 and about 2 billion in stratum 6. The median price per square meter is 7.8 million pesos in Usaquén and 8.1 million in Teusaquillo. For comparison with the visa requirements: an apartment worth more than 350 minimum wages, which in 2026 is 612.8 million pesos, gives the right to the M Inversionista visa (see the residency fact). There are no official data on transactions by neighborhood here; these are asking prices, with promoted listings at the top.

The DANE extreme poverty line is the cost of a minimum food basket per person. For Bogotá in 2024 it was 286,314 pesos a month per person, for the 13 largest cities 256,921, for the country 227,220. For a family of four in Bogotá this is 1,145,256 pesos; the multiplication by four is ours. This is the minimum of food at which a family is not considered extremely poor, not a real supermarket bill. The figures are taken from the ProBogotá bulletin of August 2025, which retells DANE; the DANE bulletin with 2025 data did not open for us, so the data is a year older than we would like.

The DANE monetary poverty line for Bogotá in 2024 is 628,604 pesos a month per person, for the 13 cities 566,228, for the country 460,198. For a family of four in Bogotá this is 2,514,416 pesos, about $760; the multiplication is ours. In 2024, 19.6% of city residents lived below this line. This is a bare survival floor: it does not include private school, insurance and rent in strata 4–6: a single median two-bedroom in stratum 4, by listings, costs 3.25 million pesos. A more practical benchmark is the digital nomad visa requirement: an income of at least three minimum wages, which in 2026 is 3 × 1,750,905 = 5,252,715 pesos, about $1,590 a month; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs page has no extra allowance for family members. The DANE bulletin for 2025 did not open for us, so the poverty line is a year older.

EAAB tariffs since July 2026 (Acuerdo 255). Water, stratum 4: fixed charge 9,135.88 pesos a month, 3,231.15 per cubic meter; sewerage, stratum 4: 6,908.09 a month and 5,071.26 per cubic meter. Stratum 3: water 7,765.50 and 2,746.48 per m³, sewerage 5,871.88 and 4,310.57. Stratum 6: water 25,032.31 and 5,331.40 per m³, sewerage 23,901.99 and 8,164.73. Stratum 1: water 2,740.76 and 969.35, sewerage 2,072.43 and 1,521.38. The subsidized volume is up to 22 m³ per two months; above it, strata 1–4 pay the full stratum 4 price. Our calculation for 11 m³ a month: stratum 1 - about 32k pesos, stratum 3 - 91k, stratum 4 - 107k, stratum 6 - 197k. This is tariff arithmetic, not a bill; garbage collection, electricity and gas are not included. Enel electricity is in a separate fact; there is no full utilities total here.

Enel Colombia tariff schedule for September 2026, residential sector, low voltage, Enel equipment. Stratum 4: 875.05 pesos per kWh for the entire volume. Strata 5 and 6: 1,050.06 (the same 875.05 plus a 20% surcharge). Strata 1–3 pay the subsidized rate only for the first 130 kWh a month (the threshold for cities above 1,000 m above sea level; Bogotá is at about 2,600): stratum 1 - 409.72, stratum 2 - 512.15, stratum 3 - 743.79; everything above 130 kWh costs the full rate of 875.05. There is no fixed component: according to the tariff schedule it is zero. Example for 300 kWh a month (tariff arithmetic, not anyone’s real bill): stratum 1 about 202k pesos, stratum 2 about 215k, stratum 3 about 245k, stratum 4 about 263k ($79), strata 5 and 6 about 315k ($95). The sum does not include street lighting and other municipal lines of the bill. For comparison, Medellín: EPM charges about 288k pesos in stratum 4 for the same 300 kWh. News reports from September 2026 say the government wants to revise the subsidies by stratum (we did not open the articles themselves), so the benefits for strata 1–3 may change.

Bogotá Secretariat of Education, 20 August 2026: enrollment in state schools runs in two phases, online, free and without intermediaries. The first phase, for priority groups, runs from 10 August to 11 September 2026, with results from 30 September. The second phase, for everyone else, runs from 5 October to 23 December 2026; families choose a place themselves on the Secretariat’s website, and formalization at the school starts on 13 October. Children aged 3–5 can enroll in prejardín, jardín and transición at any time of the year. A foreign student needs a document (a visa or cédula de extranjería, the Colombian foreigner ID card), the parents’ documents, a 3x4 photo, a health insurance certificate if there is one (if not, the child will be accepted for emergency care in the public network), and a report card for the previous grade with an apostille; if there is no report card, the school carries out a free knowledge assessment and determines the grade. If the child has no Colombian document, they are registered under a number assigned by the Secretariat. This list of documents was published in 2023 for children from Venezuela. Private school prices are in a separate fact.

This is an estimate of the top segment, not an average price for the city: schools do not publish their price lists openly, the figures are taken from the press and comparison sites. Gimnasio Campestre: monthly fee about 3 million pesos, per Infobae of 4 February 2026 (citing industry sources). Colegio Marymount (International Baccalaureate, enhanced English): fee about 4.1 million pesos a month, enrollment fee (matrícula) above 4.4 million, per the Buscando Colegio platform as retold by Infobae. Gimnasio Colombo Británico, Portafolio of 21 January 2026: per Buscando Colegio, matrícula 3,801,000 pesos and a fee of 3,525,000 a month; per the Los Mejores Colegios portal the fee is 3.0–3.5 million; the school itself told journalists an “average value” of about 4.5 million without specifying whether this is a monthly fee (the portals give 3.0–3.5 million), and did not give exact amounts without a grade level, so we do not take the 4.5 million figure into the range. On top of that, Colombo Británico charges about 403k for meals in the school cafeteria and up to 641k pesos a month for the bus. The range of 3–4.1 million: the low end is Campestre (about 3 million), the high end is Marymount (about 4.1 million), and the Colombo Británico fee (3.0–3.5 million) lies inside it; in dollars at a rate of about 3,300 pesos this is 900–1,240. In Colombia there are two payments: matrícula, a one-time fee at the start of the school year, and pensión, the monthly fee; therefore the enrollment amounts are shown separately and are not included in the range. Mid-level and low-end schools cost noticeably less, but we did not find a reliable publication with their prices, so the bottom of the range does not show the price of an inexpensive private school. The rules for enrollment in free city schools are in a separate fact about schools and kindergartens.

Newsweek and Statista ranking World’s Best Hospitals 2026, Colombia section. Top ten: 1 - Fundación Valle del Lili (Cali, 92.00%), 2 - Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá (90.43%), 3 - Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe (Medellín), 4 - Fundación Cardioinfantil y LaCardio (Bogotá, 87.50%), 5 - Fundación Clínica Shaio (Bogotá, 86.76%), 6 - Imbanaco (Cali), 7 - Hospital Internacional de Colombia (Piedecuesta), 8 - San Vicente Fundación (Medellín), 9 - Hospital Universitario San Ignacio (Bogotá, 83.59%), 10 - Clínica del Country (Bogotá, 83.46%). This is an assessment by Newsweek and Statista, not by the state, and it says nothing about waiting times or whether a clinic accepts a particular insurance. The page had to be opened by a workaround: the site rejects direct requests.

ProBogotá annual report based on SIEDCO police data, extracted on 15 January 2026. In 2025 there were 1,173 murders in Bogotá against 1,214 in 2024 (down 3.4%, the mayor’s office gives the same figure), a rate of 14.8 per 100k; for Colombia, per the same report, 25.8. The most murders per 100k are in Santa Fe, Los Mártires and Ciudad Bolívar, the fewest in Engativá; we do not give exact rates for these districts because for Santa Fe the report gives the figure 62 sometimes as a rate and sometimes as a number of cases. Street thefts: 123,393 cases, 1,554 per 100k, highest in La Candelaria (8,160), Los Mártires (5,412) and Chapinero (4,892), lowest in Usme (517). Thefts from homes: 5,977 cases, 75.3 per 100k, highest in Chapinero (172.9), Teusaquillo (170.1) and Barrios Unidos (127.3). The report itself notes that central districts with a large flow of visitors get an inflated rate per resident, and for 17.8% of street thefts the district is not specified. Takeaway for a family: murders are rare in the northern districts, but phone thefts and burglaries there are a real risk.

The stratum (estrato) is an official category of an address from 1 to 6; it appears in a listing next to the floor area. It determines both housing prices and utility rates. Based on 97 unique Fincaraíz listings for two-bedroom apartments in Chapinero, Usaquén, Chicó Norte, Teusaquillo and Cedritos on 29 September 2026, the median rent is: stratum 3 - 2,200,000 pesos (7 listings, 43 m²), stratum 4 - 3,250,000 (42 listings, 67 m²), stratum 5 - 4,415,000 (16, 77.5 m²), stratum 6 - 6,000,000 (31, 99 m²). Tariffs work the same way: in the EAAB table stratum 4 pays exactly what government institutions pay, strata 1–3 pay less, strata 5 and 6 pay more; the subsidy and surcharge coefficients were approved by Acuerdo Distrital 830 of 2021. The fixed water charge since July 2026: stratum 1 - 2,741 pesos a month, stratum 3 - 7,766, stratum 4 - 9,136, stratum 6 - 25,032. The Chicó Norte results contain only strata 5 and 6, so the highest tariffs apply there. The stratum describes the area but does not guarantee safety: for burglaries from homes, Chapinero and Teusaquillo are at the top, see the safety fact.

TransMilenio, explanation of the 2026 fare, updated 9 January 2026. A single fare on the red TransMilenio trunk buses, the blue TransMiZonal neighborhood buses and the TransMiCable cable car - 3,550 pesos, an increase of 350 pesos or 10.9%. The 125-minute free transfer window is kept, but only for holders of a personalized (personalizada) tullave card. In justifying the increase, TransMilenio cites the rise in the minimum wage, diesel and gas. The metro in Bogotá is not described in this fact.

Bogotá climate normals in the WMO reference, IDEAM data for 1971–2000. January, a month of northern-hemisphere winter: average minimum 5.6 degrees, average maximum 16.4. The coolest day is in July - maximum 14.9, the warmest days in February and March - 16.7. Average minimums by month range from 5.6 in January to 8.7 in May. The difference in average maximums between the warmest and the coolest month is less than two degrees, and the difference between the average daytime maximum and the nighttime minimum is 7 to 11 degrees: the cold here is not seasonal but nocturnal.

According to the WMO normals (IDEAM data, 1971–2000), monthly precipitation totals: January 29 mm, February 44, March 66, April 101, May 93, June 54, July 43, August 46, September 72, October 107, November 91, December 53. The sum of the twelve months is 799 mm; this is our addition, the source has no separate annual line. Days with precipitation range from 8 in January to 20 in May, 185 in total for the year, also our sum. The peak falls in April–May and October–November, with 17–20 rainy days a month, that is, rain almost every other day in those months, but light.

Movistar page for Bogotá on 29 September 2026. Internet Hogar 500 megabit, symmetric connection - 84,900 pesos a month. Internet fibra 900 megabit - regular price 102,990 pesos, when bought online 82,392 pesos for the first 12 months (20% discount); a 900 megabit option with a different set of services - 113,990, with the discount 91,192. The 500 megabit plus TV with 92 channels package - 109,155 pesos a month for 12 months. The same page mentions 1.5 and 2.5 Gbit/s plans, but without a price. The page does not say whether VAT is included or whether there is a minimum contract term. This is one provider; the ETB and Claro sites did not open for us, so we could not compare prices.