How many square meters are rented with 1.2 million pesos per month? 38 Colombian cities (October 2026)

Machine-assisted English version of the Spanish original by Aptología. All figures are locked to the original (numbers are copied, not re-translated); if in doubt, the Spanish original prevails.

With 1.2 million pesos a month, some 63 m² of apartment is rented in Tocancipá, the most surrendering city of 38, and 24 m² in El Retiro. In Bogotá they reach for 25 m² and in Medellín for 24 m².

Summary: We use the average price per m² of 64,524 apartments for rent with area declared in 38 cities.

Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.

m² for 1.2 million pesos per month

Summary

Indicator	Value
More m²	Tocantipá: 63 m²
Less m²	El Retiro: 24 m²
Bogotá	25 m²
Medellin	24 m²

Square meters for 1.2 million pesos per month

City	m² with 1.2 million pesos per month	Price per m² (medium)	Ads with area
Tocancipa	63	18,924 pesos	94
Soacha	63	19,098 pesos	128
Jamundí	58	20,690 pesos	107
Madrid	58	20,833 pesos	259
Zipakirah	55	21,818 pesos	168
Palmira	55	22,000 pesos	42
Cucutta	55	22,007 pesos	298
Piedecha	54	22,222 pesos	57
Ibagué	53	22,581 pesos	249
El Carmen de Viboral	47	25,391 pesos	102
Mounting	47	25,556 pesos	44
Villavicencio	44	27,212 pesos	74
Two-broken	43	28,193 pesos	70
Mosquera	42	28,571 pesos	167
Marinilla	41	29,091 pesos	107
Floridablanca	41	29,412 pesos	357
Bucaramanga	41	29,588 pesos	416
Cali	40	30,000 pesos	1,499
La Calera	39	31,034 pesos	51
Manizales	38	31,199 pesos	282
Puerto Colombia	38	31,944 pesos	90
Armenia	37	32,222 pesos	337
Chia	36	33,333 pesos	489
Pereira	36	33,333 pesos	1,530
Beautiful	36	33,333 pesos	1,082
Barranquilla	36	33,654 pesos	3,694
Cajicá	35	33,929 pesos	385
The eyebrow	32	37,323 pesos	354
Rionegro	32	37,500 pesos	3,179
The Star	31	38,333 pesos	489
Itagüí	30	40,000 pesos	908
Sabaneta	29	41,026 pesos	3,868
Cartagena	27	44,118 pesos	2,008
Santa Marta	27	45,000 pesos	674
Bogotá	25	48,246 pesos	12,954
Envigado	25	48,864 pesos	7,303
Medellin	24	49,206 pesos	20,068
The Retreat	24	49,254 pesos	541

1.2 million pesos per month - average price per m²; it is a reference size, not a specific ad.

Frequently asked questions

How many square meters to rent with 1.2 million pesos a month in Bogotá? Some 25 m² at average price per m² of October 2026.

Where does a budget of 1.2 million pesos a month give more? In Tocancipá: about 63 m².

Methodology

Source: night events of the Aptology database (aptologia.com) of 18 October 2026: current housing ads in real estate portals of 13 countries, collected by Aptology and seen online between 11 and 18 October 2026. Court: 18 October of 2026.
Debugging: exact duplicates (same city, area, type, price, currency, area, rooms and bathrooms) and prices outside the percentile 1 - 99 of each country, operation, currency and type are removed; the price per m² uses only ads with declared area between 12 and 2,000 m² and is also cut to P1-P99.
What is measured: prices ordered (published), not closing prices. For rent, monthly rent without HOA fee, common expenses or condo.
Minimum sample: each published figure is based on at least 30 ads; cells with less are omitted.
Colombia: Prices in Colombian pesos, no currency conversion.
Limitations: The coverage depends on the portals that travel Aptology in each country and is greater in large cities and in the medium-high and high segments; the area is the one that declares the announcement, unverified; the area names come from the portals.
Privacy: only aggregates are published; no personal data, link to ads or name of advertiser is published.
Open data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

How to quote

Pinzón Pineda, D. M. (2026). How many square meters are rented with 1.2 million pesos per month? 38 Colombian cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-alquila-1-2-millones-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.