Weather in Tangier in August

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, August is the one. Highs average 27.3 °C, lows 21.5 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

August ranks 3 of 12 in Tangier. Only July scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

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: the day barely swings — 5.8 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 36.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.6 °C.

August is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest August on record still only managed 11 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 7 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 11.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 26.6 °C in July, 27.3 here, 25 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

13.6 hours of daylight, losing 1 hours across the month. That is between Tangier's extremes of 14.6 and 9.8 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 22.9 °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.

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

August in Tangier versus nearby

If Tangier is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Chefchaouen is the weaker option in August — 9.5 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Málaga 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 — 3 points behind July, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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