Climate averages 1991–2020
Stavanger weather
in August.
A mild, wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a mild month in Stavanger: daytime highs average 16.9°C and nights cool to about 12.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 169 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 30 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bergen (160 km away). In August its highs average 17.1°C, about as warm as Stavanger, with 188 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Stavanger ranks 8th of 8 for the warmest August highs and 7th of 8 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 8 cities is 18.8°C; Stavanger is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 14.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 169 mm to 201 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
Stavanger climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.8°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 195 | 18.6 | 7.07 h |
| February | 3.4°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 157 | 16.3 | 9.29 h |
| March | 4.8°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 133 | 16.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 8.2°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 94 | 14.2 | 14.414 h |
| May | 11.5°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 93 | 13.4 | 16.917 h |
| June | 14.2°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 102 | 14.3 | 18.318 h |
| July | 16.5°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 122 | 15.2 | 17.718 h |
| August, selected | 16.9°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 169 | 16.9 | 15.515 h |
| September | 14.4°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 201 | 17.1 | 12.913 h |
| October | 10.4°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 221 | 18.5 | 10.310 h |
| November | 6.9°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 210 | 18.5 | 7.88 h |
| December | 4.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 209 | 19.1 | 6.36 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
- Bergen in AugustNorway · 160 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 11.4°C · 188 mm rain
- Kristiansand in AugustNorway · 160 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 13.3°C · 124 mm rain
- Drammen in AugustNorway · 268 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 13.3°C · 104 mm rain
- Fredrikstad in AugustNorway · 298 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 14.1°C · 86 mm rain
- Oslo in AugustNorway · 302 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
- Aalborg in AugustDenmark · 326 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 13.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Gothenburg in AugustSweden · 390 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 13.8°C · 118 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 Stavanger) is explained once on the Stavanger year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.