Climate averages 1991–2020
Nowy Sącz weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Nowy Sącz: daytime highs average 23.1°C and nights cool to about 14.0°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 27 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tarnów (48 km away). In August its highs average 23.9°C, 0.8°C warmer than Nowy Sącz, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in Poland, Nowy Sącz ranks joint 43rd of 60 for the warmest August highs and 57th of 60 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 60 cities is 23.3°C; Nowy Sącz is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.9°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 89 mm to 78 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
Nowy Sącz climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.2°C-5.5°C | -5.5°C | 44 | 10.4 | 8.79 h |
| February | 3.0°C-4.6°C | -4.6°C | 47 | 11.1 | 10.110 h |
| March | 7.4°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 52 | 12.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.6°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 69 | 12.7 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.2°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 106 | 15.3 | 15.315 h |
| June | 21.4°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 109 | 15.1 | 16.216 h |
| July | 23.1°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 128 | 16.3 | 15.816 h |
| August, selected | 23.1°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 89 | 13.2 | 14.414 h |
| September | 18.2°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 78 | 11.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.0°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 64 | 10.9 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.2°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 49 | 10.3 | 9.19 h |
| December | 2.2°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 44 | 10.7 | 8.28 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
- Tarnów in AugustPoland · 48 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 14.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Kraków in AugustPoland · 73 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 14.3°C · 75 mm rain
- Prešov in AugustSlovakia · 79 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 14.7°C · 73 mm rain
- Rzeszów in AugustPoland · 104 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 14.9°C · 71 mm rain
- Košice in AugustSlovakia · 109 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 15.5°C · 89 mm rain
- Bielsko-Biala in AugustPoland · 121 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 14.0°C · 106 mm rain
- Jaworzno in AugustPoland · 121 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 14.1°C · 73 mm rain
- Mysłowice in AugustPoland · 127 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 14.5°C · 73 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 Nowy Sącz) is explained once on the Nowy Sącz year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.