Climate averages 1991–2020
Kuwait City weather
in August.
A very hot, very dry month: the 2nd warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a very hot month in Kuwait City: daytime highs average 43.1°C and nights cool to about 31.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical August (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 12 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ḩawallī (6 km away). In August its highs average 43.0°C, about as warm as Kuwait City, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 3 cities listed in Kuwait, Kuwait City ranks 2nd of 3 for the warmest August highs and joint 1st of 3 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 3 cities is 43.5°C; Kuwait City is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.1°C to 40.0°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 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
Kuwait City climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 28 | 4.3 | 10.510 h |
| February | 20.0°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 13 | 2.6 | 11.111 h |
| March | 24.8°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 17 | 2.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.5°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 6.8 | 1.4 | 12.913 h |
| May | 37.0°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 2.2 | 0.3 | 13.614 h |
| June | 41.9°C30.0°C | 30.0°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.014 h |
| July | 43.3°C31.7°C | 31.7°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.814 h |
| August, selected | 43.1°C31.5°C | 31.5°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 40.0°C28.2°C | 28.2°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 34.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 2.3 | 0.4 | 11.511 h |
| November | 25.4°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 30 | 3.0 | 10.711 h |
| December | 19.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 25 | 3.9 | 10.310 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
- Ḩawallī in AugustKuwait · 6 kmHigh 43.0°C · Low 31.4°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Al Aḩmadī in AugustKuwait · 34 kmHigh 44.2°C · Low 31.0°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Umm Qaşr in AugustIraq · 75 kmHigh 46.3°C · Low 31.3°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Al Fāw in AugustIraq · 83 kmHigh 41.0°C · Low 32.3°C · 0 mm rain
- Abadan in AugustIran · 113 kmHigh 46.2°C · Low 31.4°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Az Zubayr in AugustIraq · 117 kmHigh 46.7°C · Low 31.5°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Abū al-Kahṣīb in AugustIraq · 120 kmHigh 46.6°C · Low 31.6°C · 0.4 mm rain
- Khorramshahr in AugustIran · 121 kmHigh 46.6°C · Low 31.6°C · 0.2 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 Kuwait City) is explained once on the Kuwait City year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ḩawallī lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures come from the same 0.1° cell and differ only by the elevation adjustment.