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Can you afford it?

Tell us what lands in your account each month. We will set it against the four costs our city guides can actually source, rent, a desk, weekday lunches and getting around, and show you what is left for everything else.

Bogota, a month

£578 to £1,190 for the basics.

Add your take-home pay above to see what is left.

Not every cost has a checked figure for Bogota, so the real total is higher than this. The missing ones are marked below.

RentFurnished studio or one-bed, asking, Chapinero Alto and Usaquen. Administracion is often extra. COP 1,900,000 to 4,500,000
£450 to £1,060
A deskNo monthly coworking price on an operator's own site: Regus quotes COP 21,967 a day only on 24-month contracts
Not included
Weekday lunchesCorrientazo, the national average in January 2026. There is no Bogota figure, COP 17,542 each, 22 working days
£91
Getting aroundTransMilenio at COP 3,550 a ride, two rides each working day (our arithmetic). COP 156,200
£37

Colombia's Visa V Nomada Digital asks for about £1,240 a month in income. Check your own case

What is counted. Four costs, and only four, because they are the ones every guide can source: rent, a desk, a lunch on each of 22 working days, and getting around. Food shopping, bills, a phone, insurance, tax and evenings out are not in it, which is why the answer is what is left for everything else, not what is left to save.

Where the figures come from. Each city's guide, checked against official statistics, the operators' own price pages and dated listings. Each line says what it is. Where a guide only publishes rent per square metre, the line says what size flat it assumes. Last copied from the guides on 3 October 2026.

The exchange rates. The same daily feed as the visa checker, from ExchangeRate-API, last updated 20 October 2026. Pesos are converted at the official rate.