Shaw AFB

Weather station · 34.0°N 80.5°W · 71 m above sea level

ICAO KSSCWMO 74790Station data since 1949

Right now23.0°C01:35 UTC · 7 h agoSource: NOAA METAR

Today so far23.0°/21.1°High at 01:35 UTC · low at 07:55 UTCSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOP

All-time record high41.1°CFriday, 19 June 1970 · highest in available records since 1949Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily

All-time record low−13.3°CThursday, 13 December 1962 · lowest in available records since 1949Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily

On this day · 23 September

Record high

33.3°C

in 1961

Record low

10.0°C

in 1963

Average high

28.5°C

all years on record

Record watch

10.3°C short of the record for 23 September

Today’s high 23.0°C against 33.3°C in 1961. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.

All-time record high

41.1°C

Date: Friday, 19 June 1970
Time of day: Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location: Shaw AFB, United States
Position: 33.98°N 80.47°W · 71 m

Highest highest in available records since 1949. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily.

All-time record low

−13.3°C

Date: Thursday, 13 December 1962
Time of day: Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location: Shaw AFB, United States
Position: 33.98°N 80.47°W · 71 m

Highest and lowest lowest in available records since 1949. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily.

Where Shaw AFB is

33.98°N 80.47°W

Every year on record

1949 to 2026

Annual average · °C

Trend over 23 years with data: +0.05 °C per decade

Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily. Years the station did not cover are left as gaps, never joined across. The dashed line is a least squares trend through the years that have data.

Records by month

Jan

27.2°

−13.3°

Feb

28.0°

−12.8°

Mar

32.5°

−6.7°

Apr

35.0°

0.0°

May

37.2°

4.4°

Jun

41.1°

10.0°

Jul

39.4°

15.6°

Aug

38.9°

14.4°

Sep

38.3°

Recent days

Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Shaw AFB, most recent first.
Day	High	At	Low	At
2026-09-23	23.0°C	01:35 UTC	21.1°C	07:55 UTC
2026-09-22	31.6°C	17:55 UTC	24.0°C	23:46 UTC

Nearby stations

Sumter MuniUnited States10.3 km
Columbia/McEntire JNGBUnited States31.7 km
Camden/Woodward FldUnited States34.8 km
Columbia/Downtown ArptUnited States48.8 km
Manning/Cooper RgnlUnited States49.5 km
Hartsville RgnlUnited States57.3 km

Data sources for this page

Where each figure on this page comes from.
Figure	Source	Type
Right now, today so far	NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP)	Measured, station
All-time, monthly and on-this-day records	NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1949 to 2026	Measured, station
Nearby stations and distances	Computed from station positions in our own database	Calculated