Climate averages 1991–2020
Sarajevo weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Sarajevo: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 15.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 00 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ilidža (4 km away). In August its highs average 26.2°C, about as warm as Sarajevo, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo ranks 7th of 7 for the warmest August highs and joint 2nd of 7 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 7 cities is 27.3°C; Sarajevo is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.0°C to 21.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 91 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
Sarajevo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.5°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 83 | 11.9 | 9.39 h |
| February | 5.7°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 92 | 11.8 | 10.410 h |
| March | 9.8°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 93 | 12.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 109 | 15.3 | 13.413 h |
| May | 19.5°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 110 | 16.0 | 14.715 h |
| June | 23.2°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 94 | 13.7 | 15.415 h |
| July | 25.5°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 84 | 12.5 | 15.115 h |
| August, selected | 26.1°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 69 | 11.2 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 91 | 11.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.5°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 95 | 10.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 10.9°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 104 | 11.8 | 9.710 h |
| December | 5.5°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 110 | 12.6 | 9.09 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
- Ilidža in AugustBosnia and Herzegovina · 4 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 16.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Zenica in AugustBosnia and Herzegovina · 53 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 16.8°C · 80 mm rain
- Mostar in AugustBosnia and Herzegovina · 71 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 17.9°C · 53 mm rain
- Tuzla in AugustBosnia and Herzegovina · 81 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 16.5°C · 80 mm rain
- Banja Luka in AugustBosnia and Herzegovina · 138 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 16.3°C · 72 mm rain
- Split in AugustCroatia · 159 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 20.5°C · 40 mm rain
- Čačak in AugustSerbia · 160 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 16.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Podgorica in AugustMontenegro · 173 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 20.3°C · 41 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 Sarajevo) is explained once on the Sarajevo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ilidža lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.