Weather in Labuan Bajo in August

A good month. August is a solid month to be in Labuan Bajo. Highs average 30.5 °C, lows 23.6 °C, and rain falls on 4 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

August ranks 2 of 12 in Labuan Bajo. Only July scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 4 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 30.5 °C days and 23.6 °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: 24 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 32.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 20.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 35 mm — roughly 140% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. August rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 92 mm across the twenty years measured — a 92 mm spread around an average of 25 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 4.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 71%.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.7 °C in July, 30.5 here, 31.9 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

Labuan Bajo sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.8 hours in August, against a range of just 1 hour across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27.5 °C in August — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.8 °C in April and bottoms out at 27.5 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

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 Labuan Bajo versus nearby

If Labuan Bajo is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Makassar is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain. Denpasar is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: August is effectively as good as it gets here — 2 points behind July, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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