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Where is the weather good in August?

In August the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands are at their sunniest, southern Africa is dry and mild, and central Australia is pleasant – while South Asia is in the middle of the monsoon.

The best places for sunny, dry and pleasantly warm weather in August are Santorini, Rhodes, Windhoek, Crete and Malta. Of the 20 best destinations this month, 12 are in Europe and 4 in Africa.

World map of good-weather regions in mid-August: green is sunny, dry and pleasantly warm — Good-weather score in mid-August: green = sunny, dry and 22–30 °C, grey = too cold, too hot or too wet.

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Top 20 destinations for good weather in August

Averages for August across 2023–2025. Daily high = typical afternoon temperature, rainy days = days with at least 2 mm of rain.

#	Destination	Daily high	Rainy days	Cloud	Score
1	Santorini Greece	26 °C	0 of 31	2%	9.9
2	Rhodes Greece	30 °C	0 of 31	3%	9.8
3	Windhoek Namibia	25 °C	0 of 31	7%	9.8
4	Crete Greece	28 °C	1 of 31	4%	9.7
5	Malta	27 °C	0 of 31	8%	9.6
6	Gran Canaria Spain	25 °C	0 of 31	16%	9.5
7	Uluru Australia	25 °C	1 of 31	11%	9.4
8	Victoria Falls Zimbabwe	30 °C	0 of 31	5%	9.4
9	Tenerife Spain	24 °C	0 of 31	21%	9.3
10	Málaga Spain	30 °C	0 of 31	16%	9.2
11	Kruger National Park South Africa	29 °C	0 of 31	23%	9.1
12	Johannesburg South Africa	23 °C	1 of 31	14%	9.0
13	Lisbon Portugal	27 °C	0 of 31	27%	9.0
14	Ibiza Spain	29 °C	1 of 31	20%	9.0
15	Darwin Australia	30 °C	0 of 31	26%	8.9
16	Sicily Italy	30 °C	3 of 31	15%	8.8
17	San Francisco United States	24 °C	0 of 31	36%	8.7
18	Agadir Morocco	29 °C	1 of 31	26%	8.7
19	Mallorca Spain	28 °C	2 of 31	22%	8.7
20	Istanbul Turkey	28 °C	2 of 31	27%	8.5

Best pick per region in August

Africa: Windhoek, Namibia – 25 °C, 0 rainy days, score 9.8
East Asia: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia – 22 °C, 9 rainy days, score 5.6
Europe: Santorini, Greece – 26 °C, 0 rainy days, score 9.9
Mexico, Central America & Caribbean: Aruba – 29 °C, 5 rainy days, score 7.2
North Africa & Middle East: Agadir, Morocco – 29 °C, 1 rainy days, score 8.7
North America: San Francisco, United States – 24 °C, 0 rainy days, score 8.7
Oceania & Pacific: Uluru, Australia – 25 °C, 1 rainy days, score 9.4
South America: Galápagos, Ecuador – 24 °C, 0 rainy days, score 7.9
South Asia: Maldives – 28 °C, 13 rainy days, score 4.1
Southeast Asia: Lombok, Indonesia – 30 °C, 1 rainy days, score 8.2

Warm, but rainy season in August

These destinations are warm in August, but it rains often – check the details before you book.

#	Destination	Daily high	Rainy days	Cloud	Score
1	Kathmandu Nepal	26 °C	31 of 31	92%	0.3
2	Costa Rica	27 °C	31 of 31	89%	0.4
3	Panama City Panama	30 °C	29 of 31	90%	0.4
4	Yangon Myanmar	31 °C	29 of 31	95%	0.2
5	Goa India	28 °C	28 of 31	92%	0.3
6	Mumbai India	29 °C	27 of 31	87%	0.5
7	Chiang Mai Thailand	29 °C	27 of 31	94%	0.4
8	Manila Philippines	30 °C	26 of 31	83%	0.7
9	Luang Prabang Laos	29 °C	25 of 31	93%	0.5
10	Langkawi Malaysia	30 °C	25 of 31	86%	0.7

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How this works

The values come from the ERA5 climate reanalysis of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, averaged over 2023–2025 on a 0.5° grid (about 50 km). Model data describe a whole grid cell, so coasts, mountains and cities can differ from local conditions; for coastal places a mostly-sea cell is averaged with the neighbouring land cell. More about the data and the score.