Weather in Virginia Beach in August

Shoulder season. August sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. You should expect rain on 15 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

August ranks 7 of 12 in Virginia Beach: past the worst of the year but short of October, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 15 days, 5 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 29.3 °C days and 23 °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: 12 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 36.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 16.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 158 mm — roughly 114% of the month's rain in one day.

August is moderately variable: 46 mm in the driest year against 266 mm in the wettest, around an average of 138 mm. Roughly two Augusts in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 10.3 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: 30.1 °C in July, 29.3 here, 26.2 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 Virginia Beach's extremes of 14.7 and 9.7 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 25.8 °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

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 Virginia Beach versus nearby

If Virginia Beach is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Richmond is a better bet in August — 7.8 °C cooler, 10 days less rain. Washington is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain.

So: August is a compromise. October is 24 points better and is what Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach

See all twelve months in Virginia Beach, or where else to go in August.