Columbia, California Weather
Columbia, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Columbia, Tuolumne County.
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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.
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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 | July 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, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
