Climate averages 1991–2020
Drammen weather
in August.
A mild, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a mild month in Drammen: daytime highs average 20.3°C and nights cool to about 13.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 104 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 37 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Oslo (36 km away). In August its highs average 20.2°C, about as warm as Drammen, with 112 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Drammen ranks 1st of 8 for the warmest August highs and joint 3rd of 8 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 8 cities is 18.8°C; Drammen is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.5°C to 15.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 104 mm to 94 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Drammen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.7°C-6.7°C | -6.7°C | 78 | 11.5 | 6.97 h |
| February | 0.2°C-5.9°C | -5.9°C | 53 | 8.5 | 9.19 h |
| March | 4.5°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 57 | 8.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 9.8°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 56 | 9.0 | 14.514 h |
| May | 15.7°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 76 | 11.0 | 17.117 h |
| June | 19.4°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 91 | 12.0 | 18.619 h |
| July | 21.6°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 101 | 12.4 | 17.918 h |
| August, selected | 20.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 104 | 13.3 | 15.616 h |
| September | 15.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 94 | 10.7 | 12.913 h |
| October | 9.4°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 98 | 11.8 | 10.210 h |
| November | 4.1°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 95 | 12.4 | 7.78 h |
| December | -0.3°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 74 | 11.3 | 6.16 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Oslo in AugustNorway · 36 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 13.2°C · 112 mm rain
- Lillestrøm in AugustNorway · 53 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 12.3°C · 104 mm rain
- Fredrikstad in AugustNorway · 71 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 14.1°C · 86 mm rain
- Kristiansand in AugustNorway · 218 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 13.3°C · 124 mm rain
- Gothenburg in AugustSweden · 248 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 13.8°C · 118 mm rain
- Stavanger in AugustNorway · 268 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 12.8°C · 169 mm rain
- Borås in AugustSweden · 275 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 12.9°C · 106 mm rain
- Bergen in AugustNorway · 280 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 11.4°C · 188 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 Drammen) is explained once on the Drammen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.