Climate averages 1991–2020
Pau weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Pau: daytime highs average 24.5°C and nights cool to about 15.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 104 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 58 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pamplona (118 km away). In August its highs average 25.9°C, 1.4°C warmer than Pau, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Pau ranks joint 24th of 57 for the warmest August highs and 56th of 57 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 57 cities is 25.0°C; Pau is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.0°C to 21.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 104 mm to 98 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
Pau climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.5°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 112 | 13.8 | 9.49 h |
| February | 10.3°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 98 | 12.4 | 10.510 h |
| March | 13.5°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 107 | 13.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.4°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 145 | 16.4 | 13.413 h |
| May | 18.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 159 | 16.3 | 14.715 h |
| June | 22.1°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 128 | 14.0 | 15.315 h |
| July | 24.1°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 105 | 12.1 | 15.115 h |
| August, selected | 24.5°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 104 | 12.5 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.5°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 98 | 11.9 | 12.513 h |
| October | 18.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 123 | 13.7 | 11.111 h |
| November | 12.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 138 | 14.2 | 9.810 h |
| December | 10.1°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 108 | 13.2 | 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
- Pamplona in AugustSpain · 118 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 15.3°C · 42 mm rain
- Donostia / San Sebastián in AugustSpain · 131 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 17.4°C · 89 mm rain
- Toulouse in AugustFrance · 149 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 17.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Bordeaux in AugustFrance · 171 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 16.7°C · 57 mm rain
- Andorra la Vella in AugustAndorra · 177 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 15.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Zaragoza in AugustSpain · 189 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 18.9°C · 20 mm rain
- Logroño in AugustSpain · 195 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 15.4°C · 26 mm rain
- Gasteiz / Vitoria in AugustSpain · 195 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 14.5°C · 32 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 Pau) is explained once on the Pau year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.