Climate averages 1991–2020
Bergen weather
in August.
A mild, very wet month: one of the warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a mild month in Bergen: daytime highs average 17.1°C and nights cool to about 11.4°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 188 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 43 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Stavanger (160 km away). In August its highs average 16.9°C, about as warm as Bergen, with 169 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Bergen ranks 7th of 8 for the warmest August highs and 8th of 8 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 8 cities is 18.8°C; Bergen is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.9°C to 14.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 188 mm to 249 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
Bergen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.4°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 249 | 20.3 | 6.77 h |
| February | 2.6°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 211 | 17.4 | 9.09 h |
| March | 4.6°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 192 | 18.3 | 11.712 h |
| April | 8.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 133 | 15.3 | 14.615 h |
| May | 12.2°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 116 | 14.0 | 17.217 h |
| June | 15.0°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 121 | 14.1 | 18.819 h |
| July | 17.1°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 149 | 16.4 | 18.118 h |
| August, selected | 17.1°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 188 | 17.3 | 15.716 h |
| September | 14.2°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 249 | 17.7 | 13.013 h |
| October | 9.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 259 | 19.3 | 10.210 h |
| November | 5.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 257 | 18.9 | 7.58 h |
| December | 2.9°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 271 | 20.0 | 5.96 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
- Stavanger in AugustNorway · 160 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 12.8°C · 169 mm rain
- Drammen in AugustNorway · 280 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 13.3°C · 104 mm rain
- Kristiansand in AugustNorway · 292 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 13.3°C · 124 mm rain
- Oslo in AugustNorway · 305 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 13.2°C · 112 mm rain
- Lillestrøm in AugustNorway · 320 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 12.3°C · 104 mm rain
- Fredrikstad in AugustNorway · 339 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 14.1°C · 86 mm rain
- Trondheim in AugustNorway · 429 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 10.6°C · 99 mm rain
- Aalborg in AugustDenmark · 457 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 13.9°C · 79 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 Bergen) is explained once on the Bergen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.