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Columbia, SC 33.942°N, 81.118°W · station CAEthr · 140 years of record
70°F
COLDEST JUL 14 SINCE 2009
forecast low · Jul 14
NWS NDFD forecast low temperature for Columbia.
70° TUE 7/14 71° WED 7/15 73° THU 7/16 75° FRI 7/17 76° SAT 7/18 76° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 14
Today ranks #51 / 139
coldest Jul 14 in 139 yrs of record
Coldest Jul 14 ever 62°F
set in 1891
Mildest Jul 14 ever 77°F
set in 2017
Coldest Jul 14 — Year by Year
Every year's low on Jul 14 at Columbia. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the coldest on record.
62 70 77 1887: 74°F 1888: 72°F 1889: 76°F 1890: 72°F 1891: 62°F 1892: 76°F 1893: 75°F 1894: 71°F 1895: 71°F 1896: 74°F 1897: 63°F 1898: 66°F 1899: 71°F 1900: 69°F 1901: 67°F 1902: 73°F 1903: 66°F 1904: 69°F 1905: 72°F 1906: 69°F 1907: 70°F 1908: 68°F 1909: 74°F 1910: 72°F 1911: 69°F 1912: 69°F 1913: 72°F 1914: 76°F 1915: 72°F 1916: 72°F 1917: 72°F 1918: 66°F 1919: 76°F 1920: 71°F 1921: 70°F 1922: 71°F 1923: 72°F 1924: 72°F 1925: 70°F 1926: 67°F 1927: 69°F 1928: 71°F 1929: 70°F 1930: 72°F 1931: 74°F 1932: 72°F 1933: 66°F 1934: 74°F 1935: 71°F 1936: 70°F 1937: 76°F 1938: 71°F 1939: 74°F 1940: 65°F 1941: 74°F 1942: 74°F 1943: 71°F 1944: 71°F 1945: 73°F 1946: 71°F 1947: 69°F 1948: 71°F 1949: 75°F 1950: 68°F 1951: 73°F 1952: 65°F 1953: 69°F 1954: 74°F 1955: 73°F 1956: 70°F 1957: 73°F 1958: 70°F 1959: 70°F 1960: 71°F 1961: 67°F 1962: 72°F 1963: 71°F 1964: 71°F 1965: 68°F 1966: 73°F 1967: 68°F 1968: 72°F 1969: 69°F 1970: 70°F 1971: 69°F 1972: 72°F 1973: 72°F 1974: 67°F 1975: 70°F 1976: 70°F 1977: 70°F 1978: 71°F 1979: 72°F 1980: 74°F 1981: 74°F 1982: 70°F 1983: 73°F 1984: 71°F 1985: 70°F 1986: 73°F 1987: 73°F 1988: 74°F 1989: 73°F 1990: 73°F 1991: 72°F 1992: 75°F 1993: 75°F 1994: 72°F 1995: 68°F 1996: 68°F 1997: 73°F 1998: 65°F 1999: 66°F 2000: 75°F 2001: 62°F 2002: 75°F 2003: 67°F 2004: 73°F 2005: 70°F 2006: 75°F 2007: 68°F 2008: 70°F 2009: 70°F 2010: 75°F 2011: 75°F 2012: 74°F 2013: 73°F 2014: 76°F 2015: 75°F 2016: 75°F 2017: 77°F 2018: 74°F 2019: 73°F 2020: 74°F 2021: 72°F 2022: 72°F 2023: 76°F 2024: 75°F 2025: 76°F 70° forecast 1887 2025 1891 Forecast low · Jul 14 70°F Coldest this date since 2009 This-date record 62°F This-date rank #51 of 139
Coldest at any time since 2026 All-time record -2°F (1899) Odds to tie/break 0.0% (daily) Period of record 1887–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at Columbia in each calendar month, and for the whole 1887–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 84°F 1974 -1°F 1985 Feb 86°F 2021 -2°F 1899 Mar 93°F 1907 4°F 1980 Apr 96°F 1896 26°F 1983 May 101°F 1898 34°F 1963 Jun 109°F 2012 44°F 1984 Jul 107°F 1952 54°F 1892 Aug 107°F 1983 53°F 1969 Sep 106°F 1925 40°F 1967 Oct 101°F 1954 23°F 1952 Nov 90°F 1961 12°F 1970 Dec 83°F 1971 4°F 1958 All-time 109°F 2012 -2°F 1899
Records set or tied at Columbia so far this year — through Jul 11.
Record Highs in 2026 2 broke
plus 2 tied — daily record highs set this year
Record Lows in 2026 0 broke
plus 1 tied — daily record lows set this year
Current run 0 days
consecutive days with a low ≤ 32°F
Longest ever 21 days
record run, ended Jan 20 1981
So far in 2026 31 days
days with a low ≤ 32°F this year
Normal low & low by month, from Columbia's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal low: 72°F · forecast is -2° vs normal .
Jan: 57°F Jan: 35°F Feb: 61°F Feb: 38°F Mar: 69°F Mar: 44°F Apr: 77°F Apr: 52°F May: 84°F May: 61°F Jun: 90°F Jun: 69°F Jul: 93°F Jul: 72°F Aug: 91°F Aug: 72°F Sep: 86°F Sep: 66°F Oct: 77°F Oct: 53°F Nov: 67°F Nov: 42°F Dec: 59°F Dec: 37°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 5:23 AM Sunset 7:37 PM Solar noon 12:30 PM Daylight 14h 14m · losing 6 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 33.94°N, 81.12°W Columbia's observed daily low for the last six weeks — a white ring marks any day that broke or tied its daily record for that date.
Every day this year against Columbia's own record — the record low, the normal, and the full span ever seen. A shareable look at where the year stands.
Each cell is one day's low at Columbia, coloured by temperature — 140 years of record, so heat waves read as warm streaks and cold snaps as blue.
How many days a year hit a given low at Columbia — counted through Jul 14 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running cold. Pick a threshold:
40° 32° 20° 10° 0° -10° -20°
31 days ≤32°F so far in 2026 — tied for the 46th most in 140 years. Normal for this point: 27 . Record: 57 in 1968.
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