Climate averages 1991–2020
Cárdenas, Cuba weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Cárdenas, Cuba: daytime highs average 31.5°C and nights cool to about 25.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 126 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes August a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 56 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matanzas (39 km away). In August its highs average 31.5°C, about as warm as Cárdenas, Cuba, with 113 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Cuba, Cárdenas, Cuba ranks joint 19th of 21 for the warmest August highs and joint 16th of 21 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 21 cities is 32.4°C; Cárdenas, Cuba is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 30.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 126 mm to 145 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
Cárdenas, Cuba climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.8°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 30 | 5.1 | 10.911 h |
| February | 26.9°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 22 | 3.5 | 11.411 h |
| March | 28.1°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 23 | 4.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 29.7°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 40 | 6.0 | 12.713 h |
| May | 30.2°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 107 | 13.7 | 13.213 h |
| June | 30.7°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 144 | 19.0 | 13.514 h |
| July | 31.4°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 99 | 17.6 | 13.413 h |
| August, selected | 31.5°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 126 | 19.8 | 12.913 h |
| September | 30.5°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 145 | 21.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.9°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 112 | 17.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 27.2°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 45 | 7.7 | 11.111 h |
| December | 26.4°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 24 | 5.0 | 10.711 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
- Matanzas in AugustCuba · 39 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.9°C · 113 mm rain
- San Miguel del Padrón in AugustCuba · 115 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 25.5°C · 137 mm rain
- Arroyo Naranjo in AugustCuba · 120 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 25.1°C · 106 mm rain
- Havana in AugustCuba · 121 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 25.8°C · 77 mm rain
- Cienfuegos in AugustCuba · 126 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 25.5°C · 99 mm rain
- Santa Clara in AugustCuba · 145 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 23.7°C · 110 mm rain
- Sancti Spíritus in AugustCuba · 219 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 24.4°C · 103 mm rain
- Pinar del Río in AugustCuba · 265 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.4°C · 154 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 Cárdenas) is explained once on the Cárdenas, Cuba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.