Cali, Santiago de Cali

Fincaraíz results on 6 October 2026, three-bedroom apartments for rent in Cali, first page: 21 listings out of 395. Prices from 0.8 to 12 million pesos a month, median 3 million, half of the listings within 1.43-6.5 million. The market splits sharply by stratum. Stratum 4, 8 listings (Valle del Lili, Ciudad Meléndez, Las Vegas de Comfandi, Bochalema, El Ingenio, Villa Fátima): from 1.15 to 2.5 million, median 1.43 million, median area 65 m². Stratum 6, 10 listings (Ciudad Jardín, Pance, Santa Rita, Santa Mónica, San Fernando, La Arboleda): from 4.4 to 12 million, median 6.5 million, median area 210 m². Stratum 5 has one listing at 3 million, stratum 3 two, at 0.8 and 2.5 million. The site converts pesos at 3,348 per dollar. The building maintenance fee (administración) is stated in only two listings. These are asking prices; the first page is sorted by popularity and includes promoted listings.

Fincaraíz results on 6 October 2026, three-bedroom apartments for sale in Cali, first page: 21 listings. There are only 8 resale listings with a stated stratum: stratum 3 - 155 million (Brisas de los Álamos, 58 m²) and 169 million (north, 62 m²); stratum 4 - 430 million (Villa Fátima, 80 m²); stratum 5 - 660 million (Valle del Lili, 105 m²); stratum 6 - 520 million (Arboledas, 144 m²), 800 million (Aguacatal, 168 m²), 1.4 billion (west, 387 m²) and 1.5 billion (Cristales, 198 m²). The median is 590 million, about 176 thousand dollars at the site's rate of 3,348. The remaining 13 listings are developer projects with a "from" price: from 220 million (Evaristo García, 55 m²) to 1.59 billion (west, 135 m²), median 809 million; in Pance and Ciudad Jardín projects start at 1 to 1.4 billion. The resale sample is small, so this is a guide to sellers' prices, not transaction statistics.

DANE calculates the extreme poverty line as the cost of a food basket covering minimum calorie needs, per person per month, separately for each city. Cali with its metropolitan area, 2025: 247,372 pesos per person, up from 238,265 in 2024, a 3.8% increase. For a family of four that is 989,488 pesos, about 296 dollars; the multiplication by four is ours. This is the minimum below which a family counts as extremely poor, not an actual supermarket bill. The figure is the 2025 annual average, and prices are higher by autumn 2026. The share of Cali residents in extreme poverty in 2025 was 6.0%.

DANE monetary poverty line for Cali with its metropolitan area, 2025: 511,638 pesos per person per month (492,236 in 2024, a 3.9% increase). For a family of four that is 2,046,552 pesos, about 611 dollars; the multiplication is ours. The line includes food and minimal non-food spending, but not rent in Ciudad Jardín, a private school or a car, so it is a lower bound rather than the budget of a newly arrived family. In 2025, 19.7% of Cali residents were poor, against 23.6% in 2024. Average income per household member in Cali is 1,584,398 pesos a month (up 11.9% over the year), fifth among the 23 cities after Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Bucaramanga; about 6.3 million for a family of four, also our arithmetic. For comparison with this guide: a three-bedroom in stratum 4 costs about 1.4 million a month by listings, in stratum 6 about 6.5 million, electricity for 300 kWh about 261 thousand.

According to Valora Analitik of 8 September 2026 (calculations by Universidad de los Andes professor Sergio Cabrales on June 2026 data): the costo unitario, that is, the price per kWh for stratum 4, ranged from 840 to 1,046 pesos among Colombian companies, and EMCALI (Empresas Municipales de Cali) at 868.6 pesos per kWh was among the cheapest, together with EEP Cartago (857.4) and Air-e (840.2). Stratum 4 neither receives subsidies nor pays a surcharge, so its price is the base: strata 1-3 pay less, strata 5-6 more. Our arithmetic: 300 kWh a month at the stratum 4 price costs about 260,580 pesos, roughly 78 dollars. This is not an EMCALI bill: the price is for June 2026, the tariff changes every month, and we did not open the EMCALI tariff table with subsidies and surcharges by stratum, as the company website shows it only through JavaScript. We also did not find EMCALI's water tariffs or the Gases de Occidente gas tariff.

According to ConsultorSalud, the World's Best Hospitals 2026 ranking by Newsweek and Statista assessed 2,530 hospitals in 32 countries and singled out the 250 best in the world. Fundación Valle del Lili in Cali was named the best hospital in Colombia for the fifth year in a row and ranks 126th in the world, 23 places higher than a year earlier. In the Brand Finance Global Top 250 Hospitals 2026 ranking it is 45th in the world among academic medical centres. These are commercial rankings, not government ones. How to get into the clinic, through an EPS or private insurance, is a country question covered in the facts on Colombia. We did not check other clinics in the city, such as Imbanaco.

The HOMICIDIO dataset of the Colombian Ministry of Defense on datos.gov.co (police data, counting victims), municipality of Cali, our sums from an API query on 6 October 2026: 2024 - 950, 2025 - 1,068, January-August 2026 - 766 against 657 for January-August 2025. For comparison, the same dataset gives 333 for Medellín and 360 for Cartagena in 2025. We did not calculate a rate per 100 thousand residents because we did not open the DANE population projection. We have not yet collected a breakdown by neighborhood or data on natural hazards.

Aerocivil open data "Transporte Aéreo Comercial - Tráfico Origen-Destino", our sums from an API query for airport code CLO for 2025 (departures and arrivals): 5,204,583 passengers on domestic routes and 1,186,206 on international ones, about 6.39 million in total. These are passengers by origin-destination pair, including trips with connections. The largest international destinations from Cali on scheduled flights: Madrid (112 thousand), Panama (56 thousand), Miami (56 thousand), Santiago de Chile (51 thousand), Fort Lauderdale (42 thousand). According to a notice from the former concessionaire Aerocali, its concession ended on 31 August 2025, and since 1 September 2025 the airport has been run by Aerocivil. For comparison, the same dataset gives 13.3 million for the Medellín airport, while the operator reports 14.6 million, so the dataset may understate the total.

Climate normals of Cali for 1971-2000 in the WMO handbook, IDEAM data for the city station. The average minimum ranges from 18.0 degrees in July to 19.4 in April, the average maximum from 28.8 in November to 30.9 in August. According to the IDEAM table for Alfonso Bonilla Aragón airport, which lies outside the city in the valley, the days are hotter: average maximum 30.9-33.0 degrees, monthly mean temperature 23.2-24.2; that page is dated 2000. The seasons here differ by rain, not by temperature.

By WMO normals for 1971-2000 (IDEAM data for the city station), monthly precipitation in Cali: January 88 mm (11 rainy days), February 120 (13), March 146 (15), April 190 (18), May 165 (17), June 91 (12), July 55 (9), August 64 (9), September 108 (13), October 170 (19), November 159 (17), December 129 (13). The total is 1,485 mm and 166 rainy days; this is our sum. At the airport outside the city it is noticeably drier according to the IDEAM table: the monthly values add up to about 909 mm and 141 rainy days. The wettest month in the city is April, the driest July.

General terms of Tigo home plans, document A2025-10-0002 of 1 October 2025: 200 Mbit/s - 60,900 pesos a month, 300 Mbit/s - 65,900, 500 Mbit/s - 75,900, prices for strata 1-3 with VAT; for strata 4-6 and in bundles they differ, and the document does not give them. On the HFC cable network the upload is 12-15 Mbit/s, on GPON fibre 100-250 Mbit/s at the same price. The same document names Cali among the cities where Tigo has an HFC network. For remote work the upload matters: which network a building has, cable or fibre, is checked by address before signing a lease. Prices as of October 2025, tariffs are indexed annually; we did not compare other providers.