Climate averages 1991–2020
Gent weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Gent: daytime highs average 22.2°C and nights cool to about 14.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 34 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Aalst (26 km away). In August its highs average 22.4°C, about as warm as Gent, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Belgium, Gent ranks joint 13th of 18 for the warmest August highs and joint 10th of 18 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 18 cities is 22.3°C; Gent is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.2°C to 19.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 74 mm to 56 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
Gent climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 62 | 11.9 | 8.58 h |
| February | 7.2°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 54 | 10.9 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.4°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 53 | 11.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 49 | 11.9 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.6°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 61 | 12.0 | 15.516 h |
| June | 20.3°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 62 | 11.2 | 16.516 h |
| July | 22.3°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 71 | 12.2 | 16.116 h |
| August, selected | 22.2°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 74 | 11.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.0°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 56 | 10.5 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.8°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 58 | 11.2 | 10.811 h |
| November | 10.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 62 | 11.8 | 9.09 h |
| December | 6.7°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 71 | 12.6 | 8.08 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
- Aalst in AugustBelgium · 26 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.4°C · 74 mm rain
- Brugge in AugustBelgium · 39 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 15.2°C · 71 mm rain
- Kortrijk in AugustBelgium · 40 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 14.3°C · 72 mm rain
- Anderlecht in AugustBelgium · 48 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Brussels in AugustBelgium · 50 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 14.2°C · 73 mm rain
- Schaerbeek in AugustBelgium · 50 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 14.2°C · 75 mm rain
- Antwerp in AugustBelgium · 51 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 14.4°C · 75 mm rain
- Ixelles in AugustBelgium · 52 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 13.9°C · 73 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 Gent) is explained once on the Gent year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.