Weather in Surat in August

A hard month. August is a hard month in Surat, and worth planning around. You should expect rain on 24 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

August ranks 6 of 12 in Surat: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 24 of the month's 31 days, 11 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. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 89% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 12 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 4.5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 33.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 23 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 213 mm — roughly 49% of the month's rain in one day.

August is moderately variable: 84 mm in the driest year against 890 mm in the wettest, around an average of 437 mm. Roughly two Augusts in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 13 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity at 89% is the real story though — it is the number that decides how the day feels, not the 29.5 °C.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.3 °C in July, 29.5 here, 30.6 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: September brings 6 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in August

August is at or near the longest days of Surat's year: 12.9 hours of daylight, losing 0.5 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27.9 °C in August — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.7 °C in June and bottoms out at 24.4 °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.

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

August in Surat versus nearby

If Surat is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nashik is a better bet in August — 2.8 °C cooler, 3 days more rain. Virār is a better bet in August — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain.

So: August is a compromise. January is 28 points better and is what Surat is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Surat

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