United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Columbus.

October leads for comfortable weather in Columbus: typically 25.5°C by day, 13.6°C at night, with 71 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high25.5°C

Typical low13.6°C

Rain in October71 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

86climate match

Beach

September

September · May · June

80climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · October

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 33 against October’s 86 — days reach only 14.6°C, 9° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 3.2°C.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

3314.6° / 3.2°

Feb

4417° / 5.1°

Mar

6121.1° / 8.4°

Apr

7825.1° / 12°

May

7029.2° / 17.1°

Jun

4832.1° / 21.2°

Jul

3833.6° / 22.8°

Aug

4033° / 22.5°

Sep

6130.5° / 19.8°

Oct

8625.5° / 13.6°

Nov

6220° / 7.6°

Dec

3715.7° / 4.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Columbus — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.6°C	3.2°C	108 mm	8.5	10 h 14	33	Strong coverage
February	17°C	5.1°C	113 mm	7.6	10 h 59	44	Strong coverage
March	21.1°C	8.4°C	125 mm	7.9	11 h 53	61	Strong coverage
April	25.1°C	12°C	102 mm	6.8	12 h 56	78	Strong coverage
May	29.2°C	17.1°C	82 mm	6.1	13 h 48	70	Strong coverage
June	32.1°C	21.2°C	102 mm	8.5	14 h 16	48	Strong coverage
July	33.6°C	22.8°C	111 mm	9.1	14 h 05	38	Strong coverage
August	33°C	22.5°C	119 mm	8.6	13 h 20	40	Strong coverage
September	30.5°C	19.8°C	85 mm	5.5	12 h 20	61	Strong coverage
October	25.5°C	13.6°C	71 mm	4.9	11 h 19	86	Strong coverage
November	20°C	7.6°C	100 mm	6	10 h 27	62	Strong coverage
December	15.7°C	4.6°C	122 mm	8.3	10 h 02	37	Strong coverage

What has changed

Columbus runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+1.4

Feb

+2.4

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+0.5

May

+0.6

Jun

+0.5

Jul

+0.8

Aug

+0.5

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+1.1

Nov

+0.4

Dec

+1.6

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.3°C.

Records at COLUMBUS METRO AP, 1948–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.3°C11 Jan 1949	-18.9°C21 Jan 1985	117 mm2 Jan 2017	292 mm2017 · driest 18 mm in 1989	79
February	28.9°C22 Feb 2023	-12.2°C5 Feb 1996	141 mm10 Feb 1981	317 mm2013 · driest 31 mm in 2000	79
March	31.7°C29 Mar 2007	-8.9°C3 Mar 1980	137 mm16 Mar 1990	338 mm2001 · driest 14 mm in 2004	79
April	34.4°C30 Apr 2012	-2.2°C7 Apr 1950	150 mm19 Apr 2020	296 mm1953 · driest 3 mm in 1986	79
May	36.1°C28 May 2006	3.9°C2 May 1963	121 mm3 May 2010	253 mm2026 · driest 6 mm in 1962	79
June	41.1°C30 Jun 2012	6.7°C3 Jun 1956	112 mm14 Jun 2023	275 mm1967 · driest 13 mm in 2000	79
July	40.6°C1 Jul 2012	15.0°C1 Jul 1950	138 mm3 Jul 1989	336 mm1971 · driest 24 mm in 2025	79
August	40.0°C10 Aug 2007	13.9°C28 Aug 1952	146 mm14 Aug 2013	257 mm1991 · driest 20 mm in 1988	78
September	38.3°C17 Sep 2019	3.3°C30 Sep 1967	105 mm17 Sep 1971	292 mm2024 · driest 6 mm in 1984	78
October	38.3°C4 Oct 2019	-4.4°C30 Oct 1952	133 mm4 Oct 2021	218 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1963	78
November	30.0°C2 Nov 2003	-12.2°C25 Nov 1950	138 mm10 Nov 2009	316 mm1948 · driest 8 mm in 1956	78
December	27.8°C5 Dec 1977	-15.6°C13 Dec 1962	110 mm23 Dec 1956	442 mm2015 · driest 11 mm in 1955	78

Typical days per month at COLUMBUS METRO AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	11	4
February	1	0	6	4
March	8	<1	2	4
April	18	3	0	3
May	27	16	0	2
June	30	25	0	4
July	31	29	0	4
August	31	28	0	3
September	28	19	0	2
October	20	4	0	2
November	5	<1	2	3
December	<1	0	7	4

How often, not how much — every day in COLUMBUS METRO AP’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	13%	28%	11%	30%	11.3–17.6°C
February	25%	28%	13%	32%	13.6–19.9°C
March	45%	27%	14%	29%	18.0–23.0°C
April	70%	22%	10%	20%	23.3–27.1°C
May	78%	22%	10%	23%	27.5–30.6°C
June	72%	28%	11%	37%	30.5–33.9°C
July	67%	33%	14%	42%	31.8–35.0°C
August	73%	28%	10%	32%	31.5–34.9°C
September	80%	20%	8%	18%	28.4–32.1°C
October	78%	15%	6%	11%	23.4–26.8°C
November	43%	20%	9%	19%	17.6–22.0°C
December	17%	26%	12%	29%	13.1–17.9°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1948Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 78-year average. Warmest: 2019. Coolest: 1968.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4188985
NOAA station: USW00093842 · COLUMBUS METRO AP
Station distance: 7.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 32.46°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from COLUMBUS METRO AP is what differs

Phenix City→Ladonia→Bibb City→Brickyard→Carriage Hill→Flournoys→

Or put two places side by side: Columbus vs Phenix City

Best time to visitColumbus.

October

September

November

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Columbus runs +1.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Columbus.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Columbus runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.