About

Who's behind this

Skip Winter is written by Andy, an American from the Ohio–Hocking Hills part of the world who has lived in Medellín full-time for [YEARS] years and would rather you got the honest version than the brochure. It's published by Scout Theory LLC, which also runs Snowbird Medellín (the 55-plus, phone-first sister site) and Rent Medellín.

How we make money

Referral fees. If you book a furnished rental or a service through a link or form on this site, the operator may pay us a referral fee; you pay the same price. A couple of links (Wise) are affiliate links and are marked as such where they appear. We don't sell ads and we don't sell your email address.

Where the numbers come from

• US cities: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Comparative Climatic Data (CCD-2018). Temperature normals are the 1981–2010 set; freezing-day counts, percent-of-possible sunshine, cloudy-day counts and snowfall are period-of-record means as published, per station.
• Canadian cities: Environment and Climate Change Canada climate normals (Montréal–Trudeau, Calgary International and Vancouver Harbour 1991–2020 as reproduced in Wikipedia's climate charts; Toronto Pearson from timeanddate.com's 1992–2021 climate averages). We show temperature only for these — ECCC's site doesn't let us pull the day-count tables reliably, and we'd rather leave a tile blank than estimate it.
• Medellín: IDEAM (Colombia's meteorological institute), Cartas Climatológicas – Medias Mensuales, Aeropuerto Olaya Herrera: mean daily maximum and minimum, rain days and bright-sunshine hours by month.
• Sunrise, sunset and daylight: computed for each city's coordinates using the standard NOAA solar-position equations, including atmospheric refraction, in each city's standard time (Colombia doesn't observe daylight saving). Accurate to a minute or two.

Temperature normals get revised every decade and we'll update when the next set lands. If you spot something wrong, tell us — we'll fix it and credit you.