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Columbus weather

Ohio · 913,175 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 15:06

Air: Fair

23°

Clear sky

Feels like 24°C

Wind

16 km/h

Gusts

23 km/h

Humidity

41 %

Pressure

1021 hPa

Clouds

2 %

Storm

Rise 07:57 Set 18:33 Day 10 h 35 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Clear sky

24°23°

Feels like 24°

Wind ↑ WSW 16 km/h

Gusts 26 km/h

Humidity 35 %

Evening

Clear sky

19°18°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ WSW 12 km/h

Gusts 35 km/h

Humidity 50 %

17:00

24°

WSW 14

Columbus forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +7.6° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Columbus climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −6 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.

Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −6 °C in January.

From 15 h 00 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 20 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 76 mm and 119 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (18 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	1 °C	−6 °C	90 mm
Feb	4 °C	−4 °C	76 mm
Mar	10 °C	1 °C	101 mm
Apr	17 °C	6 °C	119 mm
May	22 °C	12 °C	116 mm
Jun	26 °C	17 °C	107 mm
Jul	29 °C	19 °C	92 mm
Aug	28 °C	18 °C	77 mm
Sep	25 °C	14 °C	77 mm
Oct	18 °C	8 °C	76 mm
Nov	11 °C	2 °C	83 mm
Dec	4 °C	−2 °C	91 mm
Whole year	16 °C	7 °C	1,100 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 39.96° N, 83.00° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Columbus: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.512µg/m³

PM1012µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Columbus

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Columbus, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Columbus

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 16:54 Set 08:13

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/New_York); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Columbus

Curious about the weather in Columbus on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Columbus weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Columbus, Ohio: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 23 °C (feels like 24 °C) and the wind blows at 16 km/h.

Expected range today: 9 °C to 24 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

Cincinnati 160 km 25°

Cleveland 203 km 24°

Lexington-Fayette 247 km 24°

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations