When does Colombia export papayas?

Colombia ships papayas year-round. These are export weeks out of the origin, not arrival weeks in your market.

When do Colombia papayas arrive in Europe?

On the Colombia → Rotterdam run, quoted at 13–18 days port to port, that window lands around Year-round — year-round. Add the road leg at either end.

Colombia papaya export season (2026)

Colombia papaya export season

Colombia ships papayas year-round. Lands year-round on the Colombia → Rotterdam run.

Ships

Year-round

Lands

Year-round

on the Colombia → Rotterdam run, 13–18 days

Colombia papayas: the export window by month, and the weeks each lane lands it.
Stage	Month J F M A M J J A S O N D
Ships out of Colombia	Ships ships year-round
Colombia → Rotterdam 13–18 days · year-round	Lands year-round on the Colombia → Rotterdam run

Peak Shoulder Landing Port to port, across services rather than one schedule. Add the road leg at either end.

Load ports Cartagena, Santa Marta, Turbo, and Buenaventura

Year-round, out of Córdoba and the Valle del Cauca. Papaya fruits continuously in the Colombian lowlands, so this row is a programme rather than a window, the same shape as Brazil’s and Costa Rica’s.

What is different is how little of it leaves the country. Colombia grows papaya at roughly the scale of a major exporter and ships very little, because the domestic market absorbs almost all of it — the European trade out of here is a recent and still small programme into Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal. Treat availability as certain and volume as the thing to confirm before planning around it.

Last reviewed August 2026. Editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule. Weather moves them, sometimes by weeks.

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Colombia papaya export season

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