Overall score
Bogotá is most useful for users comparing affordability, transit innovation, and cultural depth against altitude and infrastructure modernization needs.
Overall72/100
Affordability80/100
Air quality64/100
Energy72/100
Colombia / Latin America
Bogotá City Intelligence
Bogotá is Colombia's capital and a high-altitude Andean city with a globally cited bus-rapid-transit network and a fast-growing services and creative economy. Bogotá is a latin america city of about 11.7M metro in Colombia. On the composite city-intelligence score, Bogotá sits around the indexed median (72/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-07
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 11.7M metro
Overall city intelligence
Good72/100
Strong affordability and transit-innovation profile balanced against air-quality and modernization needs.
Affordability profile
Favorable
Cost-of-living levels are comparatively favorable for a major capital.
Bus rapid transit
Globally cited
TransMilenio is a widely studied BRT system.
Bogotá data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 72/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 80/100 | Bogotá offers strong affordability for a major Latin American capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life. |
| Air Quality | 64/100 | Bogotá's air-quality profile is shaped by altitude, traffic, and basin geography, with active policy attention and public monitoring. |
| Energy | 72/100 | Bogotá benefits from a renewable-heavy national grid led by hydropower, with active EV-bus deployment and building-efficiency work. |
| Safety | 64/100 | Bogotá has mid-tier safety with neighborhood variation and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern. |
| Internet Speed | 76/100 | Bogotá has solid fiber broadband and improving mobile coverage, supporting a fast-growing technology and services sector. |
| Climate Risk | 74/100 | Bogotá's altitude moderates heat exposure, with intense rainfall and landslide pressure shaping adaptation priorities. |
| Resilience | 72/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
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Cost of Living in Bogotá
Bogotá offers strong affordability for a major Latin American capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life.
Air Quality in Bogotá
Bogotá's air-quality profile is shaped by altitude, traffic, and basin geography, with active policy attention and public monitoring.
Energy in Bogotá
Bogotá benefits from a renewable-heavy national grid led by hydropower, with active EV-bus deployment and building-efficiency work.
Safety in Bogotá
Bogotá has mid-tier safety with neighborhood variation and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern.
Internet Speed in Bogotá
Bogotá has solid fiber broadband and improving mobile coverage, supporting a fast-growing technology and services sector.
Climate Risk in Bogotá
Bogotá's altitude moderates heat exposure, with intense rainfall and landslide pressure shaping adaptation priorities.
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Interpretation
Bogotá is most useful for users comparing affordability, transit innovation, and cultural depth against altitude and infrastructure modernization needs. Its standout dimensions are cost of living (80/100) and internet speed (76/100). The area most worth watching is safety (64/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-07. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Colombia country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Bogotá appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
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Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- World Health Organization: WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines
Used to normalize air-quality indicators toward health-protective benchmarks.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.