Climate averages 1991–2020
Budapest weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Budapest: daytime highs average 27.0°C and nights cool to about 17.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 16 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Székesfehérvár (59 km away). In August its highs average 26.8°C, about as warm as Budapest, with 56 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Hungary, Budapest ranks 7th of 11 for the warmest August highs and joint 6th of 11 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 11 cities is 27.1°C; Budapest is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.5°C to 21.5°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 58 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
Budapest climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.2°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 36 | 8.0 | 8.99 h |
| February | 5.6°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 35 | 8.1 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 40 | 8.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.7°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 45 | 8.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 21.3°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 67 | 11.9 | 15.115 h |
| June | 24.9°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 71 | 10.9 | 15.916 h |
| July | 27.0°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 69 | 10.2 | 15.616 h |
| August, selected | 27.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 58 | 8.7 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 58 | 8.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.8°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 53 | 8.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 51 | 8.7 | 9.49 h |
| December | 3.7°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 43 | 8.3 | 8.59 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
- Székesfehérvár in AugustHungary · 59 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 17.1°C · 56 mm rain
- Kecskemét in AugustHungary · 82 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 17.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Szolnok in AugustHungary · 94 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 17.9°C · 54 mm rain
- Győr in AugustHungary · 107 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Nitra in AugustSlovakia · 115 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 16.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Banská Bystrica in AugustSlovakia · 138 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 98 mm rain
- Miskolc in AugustHungary · 146 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 16.7°C · 59 mm rain
- Bratislava in AugustSlovakia · 161 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 16.4°C · 67 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 Budapest) is explained once on the Budapest year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.