Weather in Palma in August

Prime time. August is about as good as Palma gets. Highs average 28.3 °C, lows 24.8 °C, and rain falls on 4 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

August ranks 4 of 12 in Palma: past the worst of the year but short of June, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 4 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 28.3 °C days and 24.8 °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: 4 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 3.5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 34.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 21.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 39 mm — roughly 156% of the month's rain in one day.

August is moderately variable: 3 mm in the driest year against 79 mm in the wettest, around an average of 25 mm. Roughly two Augusts in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 11.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 69%.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 27.8 °C in July, 28.3 here, 25.5 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: September brings 6 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in August

13.8 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Palma's extremes of 14.9 and 9.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 26.3 °C in August — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. 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, September is the trade worth considering — 14 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

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

August in Palma versus nearby

If Palma is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Barcelona is the weaker option in August — 3.5 °C warmer, 2 days more rain. Valencia is the weaker option in August — 6.8 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: August works, with June the better month by 9 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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