Climate averages 1991–2020
Sacaba weather
in August.
A mild, moderately wet month: the joint 9th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a mild month in Sacaba: daytime highs average 19.5°C and nights cool to about 7.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 49 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 32 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cochabamba (13 km away). In August its highs average 21.0°C, 1.6°C warmer than Sacaba, with 19 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Bolivia, Sacaba ranks 9th of 14 for the warmest August highs and 12th of 14 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 14 cities is 21.5°C; Sacaba is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 20.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 49 mm to 59 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
Sacaba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.7°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 230 | 27.1 | 13.013 h |
| February | 19.6°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 212 | 25.0 | 12.713 h |
| March | 19.5°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 161 | 23.0 | 12.212 h |
| April | 19.7°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 80 | 13.8 | 11.712 h |
| May | 19.8°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 37 | 7.4 | 11.311 h |
| June | 19.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 28 | 6.3 | 11.111 h |
| July | 18.9°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 32 | 7.2 | 11.211 h |
| August, selected | 19.5°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 49 | 9.7 | 11.512 h |
| September | 20.0°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 59 | 14.6 | 12.012 h |
| October | 20.8°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 78 | 18.0 | 12.512 h |
| November | 21.1°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 103 | 18.6 | 12.913 h |
| December | 20.6°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 173 | 24.8 | 13.113 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
- Cochabamba in AugustBolivia · 13 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 8.1°C · 19 mm rain
- Quillacollo in AugustBolivia · 25 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 8.2°C · 19 mm rain
- Oruro in AugustBolivia · 129 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low -1.7°C · 12 mm rain
- Sucre in AugustBolivia · 199 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 5.6°C · 26 mm rain
- Potosí in AugustBolivia · 245 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low -2.1°C · 10 mm rain
- La Paz in AugustBolivia · 246 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 1.1°C · 21 mm rain
- Viacha in AugustBolivia · 254 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low -0.7°C · 16 mm rain
- Montero in AugustBolivia · 296 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 18.2°C · 50 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 Sacaba) is explained once on the Sacaba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.