Weather in Columbia, month by month

Warmest month
July, 27.9
Coldest month
January, 6.2
Wettest month
June, 119 mm
Year
2001-2020
Weather in Columbus, month by month

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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Columbia is July at 27.9 degrees and the coldest is January at 6.2, a swing of 21.8 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in June, about 119 mm, and lightest in January at roughly 77 mm. Over a full year the cell above Columbia collects around 1,150 mm.

The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are April, May and October. That band is this page's own definition of mild and is stated so you can disagree with it rather than guess at it.

Humidity peaks in February at 80 percent, and the windiest month is April at 1.6 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 54 per cent of the year total falls in May, June, July, August, September and October.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 34, -81.03, covering Columbia on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Columbia, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January6.277 mm80%
February8.190 mm80%
March12.394 mm79%
April17.378 mm75%
May22.294 mm71%
June26.3119 mm70%
July27.9119 mm69%
August27.2117 mm71%
September2497 mm71%
October18.381 mm72%
November1277 mm73%
December8.1109 mm80%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Columbia?

July, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Columbia?

January, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Columbia?

June carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Columbus, month by month

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))