Climate averages 1991–2020

Port Louis weather
in August.

A warm, fairly dry month: the 11th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 24.6°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 20.1°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 24 mm 7 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Port Louis · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Port Louis: daytime highs average 24.6°C and nights cool to about 20.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 26 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Vacoas (15 km away). In August its highs average 22.3°C, 2.2°C cooler than Port Louis, with 24 mm of rain.

Among the 2 cities listed in Mauritius, Port Louis ranks 1st of 2 for the warmest August highs and joint 1st of 2 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 2 cities is 23.5°C; Port Louis is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 25.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 24 mm to 26 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Port Louis climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Port Louis, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 29.5°C25.4°C25.4°C18822.713.213 h
February 29.5°C25.6°C25.6°C17022.112.813 h
March 29.2°C25.3°C25.3°C13921.612.212 h
April 28.5°C24.4°C24.4°C6716.211.612 h
May 26.9°C22.8°C22.8°C4311.111.211 h
June 25.3°C21.2°C21.2°C217.110.911 h
July 24.5°C20.3°C20.3°C218.111.011 h
August, selected 24.6°C20.1°C20.1°C247.111.411 h
September 25.4°C20.4°C20.4°C267.212.012 h
October 26.8°C21.5°C21.5°C267.412.513 h
November 28.1°C22.9°C22.9°C4310.813.113 h
December 29.3°C24.5°C24.5°C9716.913.313 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

Distance from Port Louis

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Port Louis) is explained once on the Port Louis year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Vacoas lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.