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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Medellin or Nashville?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Medellin for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Medellin’s own page.

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Medellin 5, Nashville 14: Nashville leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Nashville 70: Medellin leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Nashville 46: Medellin leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Nashville 52: Medellin leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Nashville 30: Medellin leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Nashville 42: Medellin leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Nashville 30: Medellin leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Nashville 20: Medellin leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Nashville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Medellin
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
12 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Medellin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinNashville
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation1,405 m182 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinNashville
City population2,529,403689,447
People per km²6,644506
Museums within 10 km1412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.