Weather in Montréal in August

A good month. August is a solid month to be in Montréal. Highs average 24.9 °C, lows 14.7 °C, and rain falls on 14 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 14 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 33.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 59 mm — roughly 61% 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 157 mm against 34 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 97 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 9.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 25 °C in July, 24.9 here, 21.3 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

14.2 hours of daylight, losing 1.4 hours across the month. That is between Montréal's extremes of 15.7 and 8.7 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Montréal has no sea to moderate it, and it shows: 43.1 °C separates the hottest afternoon of the year from the coldest night. That is a genuinely continental range, and it means summer and winter here are barely the same place.

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 Montréal versus nearby

If Montréal is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Sherbrooke is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain. Ottawa 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 — 5 points behind September, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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