Climate averages 1991–2020
Manama weather
in August.
A very hot, very dry month: the warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a very hot month in Manama: daytime highs average 35.9°C and nights cool to about 31.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical August (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 04 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Al Muharraq (4 km away). In August its highs average 35.9°C, about as warm as Manama, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 4 cities listed in Bahrain, Manama ranks joint 1st of 4 for the warmest August highs and joint 1st of 4 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 4 cities is 35.5°C; Manama is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 34.4°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 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
Manama climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.6°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 15 | 3.0 | 10.711 h |
| February | 19.4°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 9.6 | 1.9 | 11.311 h |
| March | 22.2°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 10 | 1.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.3°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 3.2 | 0.8 | 12.813 h |
| May | 31.0°C26.7°C | 26.7°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 13.413 h |
| June | 34.2°C29.5°C | 29.5°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.814 h |
| July | 35.6°C31.0°C | 31.0°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.614 h |
| August, selected | 35.9°C31.2°C | 31.2°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 34.4°C29.5°C | 29.5°C | 0 | 0.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 31.2°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 0.4 | 0.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 25.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 12 | 1.6 | 10.911 h |
| December | 21.0°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 15 | 2.3 | 10.511 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
- Al Muharraq in AugustBahrain · 4 kmHigh 35.9°C · Low 31.2°C · 0 mm rain
- Ar Rifā‘ in AugustBahrain · 11 kmHigh 35.0°C · Low 31.1°C · 0 mm rain
- Madīnat Ḩamad in AugustBahrain · 15 kmHigh 35.4°C · Low 31.3°C · 0 mm rain
- Khobar in AugustSaudi Arabia · 38 kmHigh 40.6°C · Low 29.1°C · 0 mm rain
- Dammam in AugustSaudi Arabia · 53 kmHigh 39.6°C · Low 29.4°C · 0 mm rain
- Al Qaţīf in AugustSaudi Arabia · 69 kmHigh 39.7°C · Low 29.5°C · 0 mm rain
- Lusail in AugustQatar · 129 kmHigh 39.5°C · Low 29.6°C · 0 mm rain
- Al Jubayl in AugustSaudi Arabia · 130 kmHigh 41.2°C · Low 29.4°C · 0.1 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 Manama) is explained once on the Manama year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Al Muharraq and Ar Rifā‘ lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; some of these places also share the 0.1° temperature cell; for those places, any temperature difference comes only from the elevation adjustment.