Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Columbia, MD. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 4th in Columbia typically lands in that transitional sweet spot — average highs of 62° and lows of 41°, firmly in jacket weather. History shows just how wide the range can be, though: this date has hit as warm as 86° back in 2011 and dipped as cold as 20° in 1965. There's a 43% chance of rain today, but snow is nearly off the table at just 1%.
Columbia's weather has real teeth on both ends — the all-time high of 106° on July 22, 2011 and the all-time low of -7° on January 29, 1963 represent a jaw-dropping 113-degree spread. Single-day rainfall has topped 6.3 inches (August 12, 2014), and the area saw a monster 25.5 inches of snow in a single day on January 23, 2016.
Summer is the dominant season here, with highs climbing into the upper 80s from mid-July through August and peaking around 89° the week of July 16–22. Winter bottoms out mid-January with average highs of just 41°. If you're watching for rain, late May into early June is the wettest stretch, averaging over an inch of precipitation per week.