Weather in Maceió in August

A good month. August works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. You should expect rain on 21 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

August ranks 5 of 12 in Maceió: past the worst of the year but short of October, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 21 of the month's 31 days, 2 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. 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 — 3.8 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 29.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 21.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 39 mm — roughly 37% 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 194 mm against 26 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 105 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 15.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 79%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 26.7 °C in July, 26.8 here, 27.6 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: September brings 7 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in August

Maceió sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.8 hours in August, against a range of just 1.1 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 26.3 °C in August — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 28.7 °C in April and bottoms out at 26.2 °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

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself. August is the value pick for Maceió: it scores within 11 points of October without carrying October's prices.

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

August in Maceió versus nearby

If Maceió is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Recife is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Salvador is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: August works, with October the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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