Climate averages 1991–2020
Salzburg weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Salzburg: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 13.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 193 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 17 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Landshut (104 km away). In August its highs average 23.5°C, about as warm as Salzburg, with 109 mm of rain.
Among the 6 cities listed in Austria, Salzburg ranks joint 5th of 6 for the warmest August highs and 5th of 6 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 6 cities is 24.2°C; Salzburg is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 19.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 193 mm to 165 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Salzburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.1°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 116 | 13.9 | 8.99 h |
| February | 5.1°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 106 | 13.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 9.1°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 140 | 17.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.4°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 121 | 15.7 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.8°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 196 | 19.8 | 15.115 h |
| June | 21.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 215 | 20.0 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.6°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 217 | 20.6 | 15.616 h |
| August, selected | 23.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 193 | 18.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 19.0°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 165 | 15.7 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.8°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 120 | 13.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.6°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 109 | 13.1 | 9.39 h |
| December | 3.8°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 121 | 15.0 | 8.58 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Landshut in AugustGermany · 104 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 14.6°C · 109 mm rain
- Linz in AugustAustria · 108 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.3°C · 86 mm rain
- Munich in AugustGermany · 116 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 13.5°C · 99 mm rain
- Innsbruck (approximate) in AugustAustria · 137 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.5°C · 206 mm rain
- Regensburg in AugustGermany · 152 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 14.4°C · 84 mm rain
- Ingolstadt in AugustGermany · 161 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 14.6°C · 77 mm rain
- Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in AugustAustria · 162 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 15.3°C · 152 mm rain
- České Budějovice in AugustCzechia · 168 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.2°C · 79 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Salzburg) is explained once on the Salzburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.