Woosh Just Took Over Medellín and It’s Changing How You Move

Woosh Scooter Rental in Medellín: Prices, Parking Zones, Rules, and How To Ride Safely

• 🛴 Woosh launched in Medellín in early December 2025 with 409 scooters and 146 approved parking points, across multiple comunas.

• 💸 Pricing includes a COP $2.000 unlock fee plus ~COP $450 per minute, and unlock fees can dip depending on demand.

• 📍You start and end rides at “P” parking areas in the app, so parking is the whole game.

• 🚫 Do not ride on major fast corridors like Av. Regional or Las Palmas, and do not freestyle on sidewalks

If you’ve been walking around Medellín lately and thinking, “Did scooters just quietly take over the city?” You’re not imagining it.

Woosh scooters are everywhere all of the sudden. El Poblado. Laureles. Ciudad del Río. Even spots where scooters used to disappear as fast as they showed up. This time feels different though, and that’s because it is. If you were here before the pandemic, you'll remember the "Grin" scooters. They were also everywhere, but they turned out to be a disorganized mess, following the business model of Bird in the US. Pick up and dropoff wherever you want, Whoosh has designated places for tat

This isn’t the chaotic free-for-all scooter era Medellín tried years ago. Woosh came in with city approval, real rules, real parking zones, and a pilot program that actually looks like it was thought through. So let’s talk about what Woosh is, how it works, what it costs, and whether it’s something you should actually use, or quietly ignore like half the “mobility solutions” that show up here.

What Woosh actually is, in real life terms

Woosh is a short-trip tool. That’s it. It’s not meant to replace Uber. It’s not meant to replace walking. It exists for those annoying in-between distances where walking feels slow, traffic feels stupid, and paying for a car feels lazy. Think about Medellín for a second. You live in Laureles. Your gym is six blocks away. Uber takes 10 minutes to arrive and costs more than it should.
Walking uphill in the heat feels personal.

That’s the Woosh moment. Woosh launched in Medellín in early December 2025 with just over 400 scooters and about 150 approved parking points spread across 11 comunas. That detail matters, because parking is the entire game here.

This rollout wasn’t random. It was controlled. And that’s why it’s sticking.

Where you’ll actually see Woosh scooters

If you’re wondering whether this is just a tourist toy, look at where the scooters are staged.

You’ll see them in:

• El Poblado

• Laureles

• Estadio

• Belén

• El Centro

• Robledo

• Castilla

That list should feel familiar, because it’s basically where newcomers live, work, eat, and move around daily.

Translation - You can actually use these without forcing it.

They’re especially useful for:

• Short hops between restaurants or cafés

• Quick errands where parking a car is a headache

• That last stretch between the Metro and wherever you’re going

Woosh even positioned itself as complementary to EnCicla, not competition. That’s a smart move in Medellín, where people already mix transport types without thinking twice.

Pricing, without the marketing fluff

Here’s what you really want to know.

Woosh pricing breaks down like this:

• Unlock fee: usually around COP $2.000

• Per minute: roughly COP $450

They also use variable pricing, so sometimes the unlock fee drops slightly when demand is low. Early users have seen unlocks closer to COP $1.600 or $1.800.

What does that mean for an actual ride?

• 8 minutes. Around 5.600 COP

• 12 minutes. Around 7.400 COP

That puts a lot of daily trips much cheaper than Uber, especially when rideshare pricing spikes for no clear reason, which you already know happens here.

How to ride Woosh without screwing it up

Starting a ride is easy.

Download the app.
Add payment.
Find a scooter.
Scan the QR.
Go.

Ending the ride is where people mess up. Woosh requires you to park in designated “P” zones shown in the app. No zone, no ride end. Simple. So here’s the habit you want to build immediately. Before you unlock the scooter, check the map and confirm there’s a parking zone near where you’re going. Do not assume you’ll “figure it out when you get there.” Medellín is not the city to gamble on that, especially when it’s raining.

Rules, speed limits, and the Medellín street reality

Woosh scooters in Medellín are capped at 25 km/h. Helmet use is required. Riders are expected to use bike lanes when they exist and avoid major fast corridors like Avenida Regional and Las Palmas. That all sounds reasonable on paper.

Now let’s talk about reality. Medellín traffic is aggressive, fast, and unpredictable. Drivers don’t always look twice. Motorcycles appear from nowhere. Cars pull out like they’re late for something important. So ride accordingly.

A few street rules that will keep you intact:

• Assume drivers do not see you

• Slow down at every driveway and side street

• Skip headphones

• Do not ride after drinking, no matter how short the trip feels

Yes, this applies especially in Provenza. Colombia’s road safety stats are not a secret, and scooters magnify mistakes fast. Woosh works best when you ride like an adult, not like you’re testing your luck.

The Metro angle you should keep an eye on

This part is interesting. I spoke with Woosh's Marketing team and they have openly talked about integrating with the Medellín Metro system, including placing scooters near stations and potentially allowing payment through the Cívica card.

If that happens, Woosh stops being a novelty and starts becoming part of a real daily mobility stack. Metro plus scooter solves a lot of small problems that add up fast over a week. Fewer Ubers. Less waiting. Less friction. That’s the version of Woosh that really fits Medellín long term.

So, is Woosh worth using?

Yes, if you use it correctly.

Woosh shines for:

• Short daytime trips

• Errands

• Neighborhood hopping

• Metro connections

It’s not ideal for:

• Late nights

• Heavy traffic corridors

• Long distances

• Rainy chaos

Use it as a tool, not a lifestyle and it’s one of the better mobility additions Medellín has seen in a while and honestly, if you live in Laureles or El Poblado, you’ll probably end up using it more than you expect.

The city quietly made moving a little easier. That doesn’t happen often here.