East Columbia, Texas Weather
East Columbia, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for East Columbia, Brazoria County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near East Columbia. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for East Columbia is published on the Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport (KLBX) page, 15 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. 6 airfields within reach of East 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 East Columbia: Houston Southwest Airport (KAXH) 43 km · Lane Airpark (KT54) 45 km · Houston Fort Bend Airport (K2H5) 48 km · Sugar Land Regional Airport (KSGR) 54 km · Pearland Regional Airport (KLVJ) 56 km
Conditions reported at KLBX describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at East Columbia specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for East Columbia.
About East Columbia, Texas
East Columbia rests low on the Brazos River delta, a place where the humid air hangs thick with the scent of damp earth and the distant, lowing of cattle. It lies 13.2 miles north-west of Lake Jackson, TX (from Lake Jackson, TX: bearing 304°T), and is situated 1.8 miles east of West Columbia. The landscape here is a generous expanse of flat, fertile soil, crisscrossed by bayous and drainage ditches that glint like spilled mercury under the vast Texas sky. Live oaks, their branches draped with Spanish moss like ancient, melancholic beards, punctuate the fields of rice and sugarcane, their roots anchoring themselves deep in the rich, alluvial ground. The sun, when it finally descends, bleeds across the horizon in bruised purples and fiery oranges, casting long, wavering shadows that soften the sharp edges of the world, and the silence that follows is not empty, but full of the hum of unseen insects and the gentle sigh of the wind through the tall grasses. This land has a long memory, stretching back to the days when Stephen F. Austin himself established one of Texas's first Anglo settlements here, a crucial gateway for commerce and settlement along the Brazos. The echoes of that pioneering spirit still resonate, though the economy has shifted from cotton and cattle to the cultivation of rice and sugarcane, crops that thrive in this watery embrace. The river, once a highway for steamboats, now flows with a slower, more deliberate purpose, its banks a testament to generations who have coaxed sustenance from its fertile floodplains. East Columbia holds a quiet dignity, a place where the past is not buried but lives alongside the present, in the weathered barns and the enduring fields that continue to feed the region.
Live animated radar for East 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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | East Columbia, Brazoria County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 29.141358°N, 95.61578°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 77486 |
| Area Code | 281 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This East Columbia, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for East Columbia, Texas, 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 East Columbia includes coordinates 29.141358°N, 95.615780°W, situated in Brazoria County. ZIP code 77486. Telephone area code: 281. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
