Weather in Granada in August

A good month. August works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 32.1 °C, lows 20.6 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

August ranks 7 of 12 in Granada: 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 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 32.1 °C days and 20.6 °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: 26 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 39.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 13.3 °C.

August is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest August on record still only managed 15 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Augusts brought 9 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 7.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 43%.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 32.4 °C in July, 32.1 here, 27.2 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

13.6 hours of daylight, losing 1 hours across the month. That is between Granada's extremes of 14.7 and 9.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 27.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Granada versus nearby

If Granada is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Málaga is a better bet in August — 4.3 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Sevilla is the weaker option in August — 6.4 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: August works, with May the better month by 17 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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