Climate averages 1991–2020
Panama City weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 7th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Panama City: daytime highs average 28.7°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 267 mm of rain on roughly 30 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 25 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is San Miguelito (8 km away). In August its highs average 29.2°C, about as warm as Panama City, with 267 mm of rain.
Among the 6 cities listed in Panama, Panama City ranks joint 2nd of 6 for the warmest August highs and joint 1st of 6 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 6 cities is 28.5°C; Panama City is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 267 mm to 257 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
Panama City climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.1°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 17 | 4.7 | 11.712 h |
| February | 29.9°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 9.5 | 2.5 | 11.812 h |
| March | 30.5°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 12 | 3.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.3°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 81 | 13.6 | 12.312 h |
| May | 29.1°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 221 | 28.2 | 12.513 h |
| June | 28.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 251 | 29.4 | 12.613 h |
| July | 28.7°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 269 | 30.1 | 12.613 h |
| August, selected | 28.7°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 267 | 30.4 | 12.412 h |
| September | 28.5°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 257 | 29.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.3°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 251 | 30.0 | 11.912 h |
| November | 28.1°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 238 | 26.9 | 11.712 h |
| December | 28.6°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 101 | 16.8 | 11.612 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
- San Miguelito in AugustPanama · 8 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 267 mm rain
- Juan Díaz in AugustPanama · 10 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 24.0°C · 267 mm rain
- Arraiján in AugustPanama · 15 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 23.5°C · 276 mm rain
- Colón in AugustPanama · 58 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 24.3°C · 325 mm rain
- David in AugustPanama · 326 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 22.0°C · 453 mm rain
- Apartadó in AugustColombia · 341 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.9°C · 253 mm rain
- Chigorodó in AugustColombia · 345 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.7°C · 445 mm rain
- Montería in AugustColombia · 401 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.5°C · 242 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 Panama City) is explained once on the Panama City year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
San Miguelito and Juan Díaz lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.