How many square meters are rented with 1 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 million pesos a month, some 53 m² of apartment is rented in Tocancipá, the most surrendering city of 38, and 20 m² in El Retiro. In Bogotá they reach for 21 m² and in Medellín for 20 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.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More m² | Tocantipá: 53 m² |
| Less m² | El Retiro: 20 m² |
| Bogotá | 21 m² |
| Medellin | 20 m² |
Square meters for 1 million pesos per month
| City | m² with 1 million pesos per month | Price per m² (medium) | Ads with area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tocancipa | 53 | 18,924 pesos | 94 |
| Soacha | 52 | 19,098 pesos | 128 |
| Jamundí | 48 | 20,690 pesos | 107 |
| Madrid | 48 | 20,833 pesos | 259 |
| Zipakirah | 46 | 21,818 pesos | 168 |
| Palmira | 45 | 22,000 pesos | 42 |
| Cucutta | 45 | 22,007 pesos | 298 |
| Piedecha | 45 | 22,222 pesos | 57 |
| Ibagué | 44 | 22,581 pesos | 249 |
| El Carmen de Viboral | 39 | 25,391 pesos | 102 |
| Mounting | 39 | 25,556 pesos | 44 |
| Villavicencio | 37 | 27,212 pesos | 74 |
| Two-broken | 35 | 28,193 pesos | 70 |
| Mosquera | 35 | 28,571 pesos | 167 |
| Marinilla | 34 | 29,091 pesos | 107 |
| Floridablanca | 34 | 29,412 pesos | 357 |
| Bucaramanga | 34 | 29,588 pesos | 416 |
| Cali | 33 | 30,000 pesos | 1,499 |
| La Calera | 32 | 31,034 pesos | 51 |
| Manizales | 32 | 31,199 pesos | 282 |
| Puerto Colombia | 31 | 31,944 pesos | 90 |
| Armenia | 31 | 32,222 pesos | 337 |
| Chia | 30 | 33,333 pesos | 489 |
| Pereira | 30 | 33,333 pesos | 1,530 |
| Beautiful | 30 | 33,333 pesos | 1,082 |
| Barranquilla | 30 | 33,654 pesos | 3,694 |
| Cajicá | 29 | 33,929 pesos | 385 |
| The eyebrow | 27 | 37,323 pesos | 354 |
| Rionegro | 27 | 37,500 pesos | 3,179 |
| The Star | 26 | 38,333 pesos | 489 |
| Itagüí | 25 | 40,000 pesos | 908 |
| Sabaneta | 24 | 41,026 pesos | 3,868 |
| Cartagena | 23 | 44,118 pesos | 2,008 |
| Santa Marta | 22 | 45,000 pesos | 674 |
| Bogotá | 21 | 48,246 pesos | 12,954 |
| Envigado | 20 | 48,864 pesos | 7,303 |
| Medellin | 20 | 49,206 pesos | 20,068 |
| The Retreat | 20 | 49,254 pesos | 541 |
1 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 million pesos a month in Bogotá? Some 21 m² at average price per m² of October 2026.
Where does a budget of 1 million pesos a month give more? In Tocancipá: about 53 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 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-millon-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23502349 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): ¿Cuántos metros cuadrados se arriendan con 1 millón de pesos al mes? 38 ciudades de Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-arrienda-1-millon-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-arrienda-1-millon-ciudades-colombia-2026