Climate averages 1991–2020
Banská Bystrica weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the 2nd 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 Banská Bystrica: daytime highs average 23.8°C and nights cool to about 14.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 22 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Žilina (62 km away). In August its highs average 23.2°C, 0.7°C cooler than Banská Bystrica, with 92 mm of rain.
Among the 6 cities listed in Slovakia, Banská Bystrica ranks 5th of 6 for the warmest August highs and 6th of 6 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 6 cities is 24.8°C; Banská Bystrica is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 18.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 98 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
Banská Bystrica 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-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 49 | 10.1 | 8.89 h |
| February | 3.2°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 52 | 10.2 | 10.110 h |
| March | 7.8°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 58 | 11.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 69 | 11.8 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 106 | 15.3 | 15.215 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 118 | 14.8 | 16.116 h |
| July | 23.9°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 116 | 14.7 | 15.716 h |
| August, selected | 23.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 98 | 12.2 | 14.414 h |
| September | 18.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 78 | 11.0 | 12.613 h |
| October | 12.9°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 67 | 10.3 | 10.911 h |
| November | 7.0°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 60 | 10.8 | 9.29 h |
| December | 2.0°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 55 | 10.5 | 8.48 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
- Žilina in AugustSlovakia · 62 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.1°C · 92 mm rain
- Nitra in AugustSlovakia · 92 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 16.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Bielsko-Biala in AugustPoland · 121 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 14.0°C · 106 mm rain
- Zlín in AugustCzechia · 121 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.0°C · 80 mm rain
- Havířov in AugustCzechia · 127 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 14.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Ostrava in AugustCzechia · 137 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 14.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Budapest in AugustHungary · 138 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 17.2°C · 58 mm rain
- Miskolc in AugustHungary · 139 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 16.7°C · 59 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 Banská Bystrica) is explained once on the Banská Bystrica year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.