Weather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in August

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, August is the one. Highs average 24 °C, lows 21.6 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria barely has seasons. August scores 98 out of 100 against a best of 100 in June — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average August reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 2.4 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 27.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 19.7 °C.

August is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest August on record still only managed 17 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 10 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind sits around 24.4 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 84%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 23.1 °C in July, 24 here, 24.3 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

13.2 hours of daylight, losing 0.7 hours across the month. That is between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's extremes of 13.9 and 10.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 23.1 °C in August — comfortable for a proper swim. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, October is the trade worth considering — 8 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

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

August in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria versus nearby

If Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Funchal is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Agadir is the weaker option in August — 14.4 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

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

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