Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for The Wharf, DC. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 4th along the Wharf typically lands in that sweet spot of mid-spring, with average highs of 64° and lows around 44°. History shows the date can surprise you — it's hit as warm as 85° (1956) and as cold as 28° (1954) — but a snow day is essentially off the table. There's a 38% chance of rain, so a jacket with a hood isn't a bad call.
DC's weather has genuine extremes on both ends: the city baked at 105° in July 2012 and bottomed out at -5° in January 1982, a 110-degree swing across the record books. A single storm dumped 6.11 inches of rain on June 21, 1972, and a February 1983 blizzard buried the area under 16.4 inches of snow in one day. This is a city that means business in every season.
The Wharf is at its finest in May and September, when highs are in the comfortable 76–80° range before or after the summer heat settles in. Peak summer (mid-July) averages a steamy 90° high, and July is also the wettest stretch of the year at over an inch of rain per week. Winter is mild by Northeast standards — January and February average in the mid-to-upper 40s — but cold snaps are real.