Calling Colombia
A landline in Colombia costs $0.013 a minute. A mobile costs $0.041 a minute. Priced 27 August 2026, from the same table the dialler quotes before it connects anything.
No app, no SIM and no contract — Colombia is dialled from a browser tab, and the price is on screen before it rings.
Those two figures are what a real Colombian landline and a real Colombian mobile cost. They are examples, not the whole story, because a country does not have a price — it has a numbering plan, and the price follows the number.
Across the 523 Colombian prefixes we carry, everything falls between $0.013 and $0.041 a minute. That is the entire span. Not a starting price with an asterisk on it.
This is the part worth knowing before you dial anywhere, and it is why this page shows a range at all. Most numbering plans hide costly blocks — premium ranges, special services, satellite hand-offs — that cost many times the ordinary rate and are invisible until the bill.
Colombia does not. The dearest Colombian number on our card is the mobile rate you have already seen. Across all 523 prefixes there is nothing above it.
That is not true next door. Venezuela runs to $0.401 a minute, Ecuador to $0.882, Panama to $0.222 — all of them many times what an ordinary landline in the same country costs. We publish those ranges too, on the rates page, for the same reason we publish this one.
From a US phone: 011, then 57, then the number. From Kliwe you can type it that way or in the +57 form — both resolve to the same number and are quoted at the same rate before connecting.
A landline in Bogotá
+57 601 2345678
Ten digits. Colombian landlines carry a 60 prefix in front of the old city code — Bogotá is 601, Medellín 604, Cali 602.
A mobile
+57 321 1234567
Ten digits, always beginning with 3.
If you are working from an older guide, check the length. The seven-digit landline format — +57 1 followed by seven digits — no longer connects to anything. Colombia moved its fixed lines to ten digits, and a number written the old way will simply fail.
Colombia is on one time zone and does not observe daylight saving, which is what makes the offset move rather than the country.
From March to early November, Colombia is one hour behind New York and the same time as Chicago. For the rest of the year it is the same time as New York. Nobody announces the switch, so if you called at a good hour last month and it is now awkward, this is why.
Kliwe cannot call emergency services, in Colombia or anywhere else. It is not a replacement for a phone line that can reach 123, 911, or the emergency number wherever you are sitting. Keep one.
It also cannot reach numbers we have no published price for. Where the card is silent the dialler refuses and says so, rather than connecting the call and billing whatever it turns out to have cost.
The first 2 minutes are free, and the balance after that never expires. The rate is on screen before it rings and the meter runs while you talk.