Where to Go in August

August across 279 indexable cities in this dataset: 183 average above 24°C, 83 sit between 15°C and 24°C, and 13 sit at 15°C or below. The hottest monthly average is Basrah at 38.9°C; the coldest is Melbourne at 10.2°C.

Rain that month spans 0 mm in Riyadh to 943 mm in Conakry. The sample mean temperature is 24.9°C and the sample mean rainfall is 115 mm.

Hemisphere and monsoon in August

Northern-hemisphere cities average 25.9°C in August; southern-hemisphere cities average 20.5°C. That split is the usual summer/winter reversal, not a scoring trick.

Monsoon-type cities that are inside their wet season this month include Kakamega, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Dhaka, and 57 more. 35 monsoon-type cities are on the dry side of their year in August.