United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Columbus.

September leads for comfortable weather in Columbus: typically 25.3°C by day, 12.5°C at night, with 63 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high25.3°C

Typical low12.5°C

Rain in September63 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · August

85climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

77climate match

Outdoors

October

October · September · May

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 85 — days reach only 0.3°C, 24° 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

50.3° / -10.1°

Feb

52.7° / -8°

Mar

219.9° / -2.1°

Apr

4716.7° / 3.9°

May

7122.8° / 10.6°

Jun

6528.5° / 16.5°

Jul

6030.6° / 18.9°

Aug

6829.1° / 17.6°

Sep

8525.3° / 12.5°

Oct

5417.3° / 5°

Nov

188.9° / -2.4°

Dec

52° / -7.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Columbus — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	0.3°C	-10.1°C	16 mm	3.1	9 h 29	5	Strong coverage
February	2.7°C	-8°C	18 mm	3.3	10 h 32	5	Strong coverage
March	9.9°C	-2.1°C	35 mm	5.3	11 h 48	21	Strong coverage
April	16.7°C	3.9°C	74 mm	7.1	13 h 16	47	Strong coverage
May	22.8°C	10.6°C	116 mm	9.1	14 h 29	71	Strong coverage
June	28.5°C	16.5°C	120 mm	8.7	15 h 09	65	Strong coverage
July	30.6°C	18.9°C	88 mm	7.1	14 h 53	60	Strong coverage
August	29.1°C	17.6°C	83 mm	7.2	13 h 50	68	Strong coverage
September	25.3°C	12.5°C	63 mm	5.9	12 h 25	85	Strong coverage
October	17.3°C	5°C	60 mm	5.5	11 h 01	54	Strong coverage
November	8.9°C	-2.4°C	31 mm	3.9	9 h 48	18	Strong coverage
December	2°C	-7.9°C	24 mm	3.9	9 h 12	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Columbus runs +0.4°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

+1.2

Feb

-0.2

Mar

+1.7

Apr

-0.4

May

-0.3

Jun

+0.5

Jul

-0.9

Aug

-0.9

Sep

+1.6

Oct

-0.5

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+2.1

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.8°C.

Records at COLUMBUS 3 NE, 1893–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.1°C25 Jan 1944	-33.9°C12 Jan 1912	35 mm5 Jan 1932	97 mm1932 · driest 0 mm in 1986	130
February	25.0°C25 Feb 1896	-33.9°C13 Feb 1905	43 mm2 Feb 2016	92 mm1915 · driest 0 mm in 2022	130
March	35.0°C21 Mar 2026	-26.1°C2 Mar 1913	91 mm14 Mar 2021	192 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1994	130
April	37.8°C28 Apr 1910	-15.6°C3 Apr 1975	74 mm9 Apr 2013	191 mm1978 · driest 2 mm in 1928	130
May	39.4°C29 May 1913	-5.6°C1 May 1909	100 mm14 May 1905	240 mm1903 · driest 16 mm in 2006	131
June	42.8°C26 Jun 1936	1.1°C8 Jun 1894	131 mm18 Jun 1946	317 mm1967 · driest 16 mm in 1962	131
July	46.1°C25 Jul 1936	5.0°C9 Jul 1895	122 mm26 Jul 2017	274 mm1993 · driest 1 mm in 2012	132
August	43.9°C18 Aug 1934	2.8°C20 Aug 1950	152 mm5 Aug 1981	291 mm1981 · driest 3 mm in 1941	132
September	40.6°C6 Sep 1939	-4.4°C29 Sep 1984	145 mm11 Sep 1900	256 mm1965 · driest 1 mm in 2024	132
October	35.6°C3 Oct 1938	-14.4°C27 Oct 1925	84 mm16 Oct 1968	167 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 1913	131
November	29.4°C5 Nov 1945	-25.6°C30 Nov 1964	66 mm4 Nov 1922	127 mm1931 · driest 0 mm in 1939	132
December	25.6°C6 Dec 1939	-31.7°C28 Dec 1916	46 mm25 Dec 2023	90 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 1943	132

Typical days per month at COLUMBUS 3 NE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	31	<1	3
February	0	0	26	<1	3
March	<1	<1	21	1	2
April	4	<1	7	3	<1
May	13	4	<1	4	0
June	25	13	0	4	0
July	29	19	0	3	0
August	27	14	0	3	0
September	17	7	<1	2	0
October	4	<1	6	2	<1
November	<1	0	21	<1	1
December	0	0	30	<1	3

How often, not how much — every day in COLUMBUS 3 NE’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%	9%	1%	4%	-4.0–5.4°C
February	1%	11%	2%	6%	-2.1–8.0°C
March	11%	15%	4%	12%	5.3–14.1°C
April	32%	23%	8%	25%	14.1–20.1°C
May	55%	29%	11%	33%	20.6–25.9°C
June	70%	28%	11%	33%	26.2–31.3°C
July	78%	23%	9%	20%	28.8–34.3°C
August	77%	23%	9%	22%	27.6–32.8°C
September	72%	20%	7%	19%	22.9–28.8°C
October	43%	15%	5%	11%	15.5–22.0°C
November	8%	11%	3%	7%	6.2–13.9°C
December	<1%	11%	2%	6%	-1.5–6.1°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.

1896Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 120-year average. Warmest: 1931. Coolest: 1912.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5066001
NOAA station: USC00251825 · COLUMBUS 3 NE
Station distance: 5.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 41.43°, 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 3 NE is what differs

Bellwood→Duncan→Platte Center→Richland→Tarnov→Carriage House Estates→

Or put two places side by side: Columbus vs Bellwood

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