Columbia, California Weather
Columbia, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Columbia, Tuolumne County.
Full aviation weather for Columbia is published on the Calaveras Co Maury Rasmussen Field (KCPU) page, 25 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 2 airfields within reach of Columbia have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Columbia: Westover Field Amador County Airport (KJAQ) 51 km
Conditions reported at KCPU describe the airfield itself. Weather 25 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Columbia specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Columbia.
About Columbia, California
Columbia rests in a fold of the Sierra Nevada foothills, a place where the oaks, their limbs gnarled like ancient hands, cast dappled shadows across the ochre earth. It lies 35.8 miles north-east of Riverbank, CA (from Riverbank, CA: bearing 54°T), and is situated 3.8 miles north-north-west of Sonora. The air, even in the midday heat, carries a certain crispness, a memory of mountain snowmelt and the scent of sun-baked pine needles. Wildflowers, tenacious and bright, push through the dry grass, their colors a defiant splash against the muted tones of the landscape. The terrain itself is a gentle rise and fall, a topography shaped by eons of erosion, leading the eye towards distant, hazy ridges. This is a place etched by the fever of gold, a history that clings to the weathered wooden buildings and the very dust underfoot. Columbia State Historic Park preserves the spirit of the 1850s, a living museum where the echoes of miners and merchants still seem to linger in the quiet afternoons. Its economy, once fueled by the relentless pursuit of precious metal, has found a new vein in tourism, drawing visitors to walk its preserved streets and imagine a more boisterous past. The Saloon, with its swinging doors and plank floors, stands as a sturdy sentinel to an era when fortunes were made and lost with the turn of a pan, and the careful preservation of these structures allows a tangible connection to that vibrant, often turbulent, chapter of California's story.
Live animated radar for Columbia and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Columbia, Tuolumne County, California |
| Coordinates | 38.036312°N, 120.401306°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95310 |
| Area Code | 408, 669 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Columbia, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Columbia, California, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Columbia includes coordinates 38.036312°N, 120.401306°W, situated in Tuolumne County. ZIP code 95310. Telephone area code: 408, 669. Timezone: Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
