United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Columbus.

September leads for comfortable weather in Columbus: typically 26.3°C by day, 13.2°C at night, with 81 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low13.2°C

Rain in September81 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · August

80climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

76climate match

Outdoors

October

October · September · April

80climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 80 — days reach only 3.4°C, 21° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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

53.4° / -5.6°

Feb

55.8° / -4.4°

Mar

1811.6° / 0.1°

Apr

4518.3° / 5.8°

May

7323.6° / 11.9°

Jun

6328.1° / 17°

Jul

5829.8° / 18.6°

Aug

6729.4° / 17.6°

Sep

8026.3° / 13.2°

Oct

6119.8° / 6.6°

Nov

2412.2° / 1.1°

Dec

55.8° / -3°

Monthly climate evidence for Columbus — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	3.4°C	-5.6°C	87 mm	8.5	9 h 41	5	Strong coverage
February	5.8°C	-4.4°C	74 mm	7.5	10 h 40	5	Strong coverage
March	11.6°C	0.1°C	95 mm	9.6	11 h 50	18	Strong coverage
April	18.3°C	5.8°C	126 mm	10.9	13 h 10	45	Strong coverage
May	23.6°C	11.9°C	127 mm	11.3	14 h 18	73	Strong coverage
June	28.1°C	17°C	135 mm	9.4	14 h 55	63	Strong coverage
July	29.8°C	18.6°C	118 mm	8.5	14 h 40	58	Strong coverage
August	29.4°C	17.6°C	88 mm	6.7	13 h 42	67	Strong coverage
September	26.3°C	13.2°C	81 mm	6.1	12 h 24	80	Strong coverage
October	19.8°C	6.6°C	85 mm	6.7	11 h 06	61	Strong coverage
November	12.2°C	1.1°C	91 mm	7.6	9 h 58	24	Strong coverage
December	5.8°C	-3°C	94 mm	8.1	9 h 25	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Columbus runs +1.1°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

+2.0

Mar

+1.7

Apr

+0.7

May

+0.9

Jun

+0.7

Jul

+0.2

Aug

+0.4

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+0.4

Dec

+2.5

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 27.3°C.

Records at COLUMBUS, 1893–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.9°C24 Jan 1943	-32.8°C13 Jan 1912	129 mm5 Jan 1949	354 mm1937 · driest 8 mm in 1981	132
February	26.1°C21 Feb 2018	-32.8°C13 Feb 1899	79 mm15 Feb 1908	176 mm1950 · driest 2 mm in 1947	132
March	31.7°C24 Mar 1910	-21.7°C6 Mar 1960	178 mm25 Mar 1913	305 mm1913 · driest 9 mm in 1910	132
April	33.9°C24 Apr 1925	-8.9°C1 Apr 1923	101 mm16 Apr 1998	255 mm1996 · driest 17 mm in 1934	132
May	36.7°C25 May 1916	-2.8°C9 May 1947	115 mm24 May 1952	274 mm1968 · driest 20 mm in 2007	133
June	42.2°C24 Jun 1933	1.7°C3 Jun 1910	101 mm23 Jun 1960	339 mm2019 · driest 9 mm in 1936	133
July	43.9°C22 Jul 1901	5.6°C24 Jul 1947	162 mm20 Jul 1998	317 mm2015 · driest 5 mm in 1919	133
August	41.1°C21 Aug 1936	4.4°C30 Aug 1946	104 mm6 Aug 1995	253 mm2016 · driest 8 mm in 1955	132
September	39.4°C2 Sep 1922	-3.9°C26 Sep 1928	138 mm16 Sep 1911	257 mm1911 · driest 9 mm in 1953	133
October	36.1°C8 Oct 1916	-10.6°C30 Oct 1895	105 mm5 Oct 1910	226 mm1910 · driest 3 mm in 2024	133
November	30.0°C1 Nov 1950	-18.9°C25 Nov 1950	62 mm6 Nov 2017	234 mm1985 · driest 9 mm in 1917	133
December	22.8°C3 Dec 1982	-28.9°C11 Dec 1917	140 mm27 Dec 2012	234 mm2012 · driest 9 mm in 1955	132

Typical days per month at COLUMBUS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	25	3	4
February	<1	0	23	3	3
March	1	0	17	3	1
April	5	0	4	4	<1
May	14	3	<1	4	0
June	24	11	0	4	0
July	29	16	0	4	0
August	29	14	0	3	0
September	19	7	0	3	0
October	7	<1	3	3	0
November	<1	0	14	3	<1
December	0	0	23	3	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 84); on 2011–2025 it is May (83). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in COLUMBUS’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	<1%	26%	9%	28%	0.1–7.7°C
February	2%	25%	9%	28%	1.5–9.5°C
March	10%	30%	11%	36%	8.1–15.7°C
April	29%	34%	12%	44%	15.9–21.2°C
May	55%	33%	12%	42%	21.1–27.0°C
June	69%	30%	11%	35%	26.7–31.0°C
July	74%	26%	10%	26%	28.9–33.4°C
August	77%	23%	9%	22%	28.2–32.2°C
September	74%	21%	9%	18%	24.2–29.1°C
October	45%	21%	8%	20%	17.9–23.2°C
November	10%	26%	10%	28%	9.3–15.5°C
December	<1%	27%	9%	30%	2.2–9.0°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.

1894Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 126-year average. Warmest: 1921. Coolest: 1917.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4256038
NOAA station: USC00121747 · COLUMBUS
Station distance: 3.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.20°, 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 is what differs

Hope→Taylorsville→Elizabethtown→Clifford→Azalia→Becks Grove→

Or put two places side by side: Columbus vs Hope

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