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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Medellin or Tel Aviv?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Tel Aviv 52: Medellin leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Tel Aviv 14: Medellin leads by 66 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Tel Aviv 35: Tel Aviv leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Medellin
51match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts 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
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MedellinTel Aviv

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). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinTel Aviv
Official languageSpanishHebrew
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number123Police 100, fire 102
Elevation1,405 m5 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinTel Aviv
City population2,529,403467,875
People per km²6,6448,998
Museums within 10 km1498
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.