In short
Bogotá sits at two thousand six hundred metres: fourteen degrees all year, never hot, never cold. The city has no seasons, only wetter and drier months.
Every Sunday and public holiday, the Ciclovía closes a hundred and twenty kilometres of avenues to cars, from seven to two. A million people move along them by bike, on foot or on skates.
What it really costs
Bogotá costs less than Medellín for a far wider choice of housing. The Chapinero and Teusaquillo districts hold most of the long-term residents.
The menú del día, a full set lunch, costs three to four euros in almost every neighbourhood. That is what keeps the food budget so low.
What nobody tells you
The altitude tells in the first few days: breathlessness, broken sleep, alcohol going straight to your head. Three days are enough to adjust, but they cannot be skipped.
It often rains in the late afternoon, all year round. An umbrella is more use here than on the Caribbean coast.
Neighbourhoods vary sharply and the gap is real. The north and centre-east are walked by day; elsewhere you move by ride-hailing app rather than street taxi.