Weather in Colmar in August

A good month. August is a solid month to be in Colmar. Highs average 26 °C, lows 14.8 °C, and rain falls on 14 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

August ranks 4 of 12 in Colmar: past the worst of the year but short of September, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

This is persistent light rain rather than storms: 14 wet days but only 2 heavy ones. It rarely cancels anything outright, and it rarely fully clears either. A jacket beats an umbrella. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 6 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 39.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 7.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 46 mm — roughly 53% of the month's rain in one day.

August is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest August on record still delivered 150 mm against 32 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 86 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 5.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 26.4 °C in July, 26 here, 22.1 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

14.4 hours of daylight, losing 1.5 hours across the month. That is between Colmar's extremes of 16 and 8.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 28.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

August in Colmar versus nearby

If Colmar is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Luzern is the weaker option in August — 2 °C cooler, 3 days more rain. Stuttgart is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: August is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind September, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Colmar

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