Weather in Bari in August

A good month. August works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 32.3 °C, lows 23.3 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

August ranks 9 of 12 in Bari: past the worst of the year but short of May, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 32.3 °C days and 23.3 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 5 days clear 35 °C, so a serious heatwave is normal rather than notable. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 41.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 17.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 131 mm — roughly 468% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. August rainfall has ranged from 2 mm to 175 mm across the twenty years measured — a 173 mm spread around an average of 28 mm. The average is real but almost no individual August looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 10.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 58%.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 32.1 °C in July, 32.3 here, 27.5 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

13.9 hours of daylight, losing 1.2 hours across the month. That is between Bari's extremes of 15.1 and 9.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 25.9 °C in August — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

August in Bari versus nearby

If Bari is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Dubrovnik is a better bet in August — 3.6 °C cooler, 1 day more rain. Positano is a better bet in August — 5.5 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: August is a compromise. May is 19 points better and is what Bari is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Bari

See all twelve months in Bari, or where else to go in August.