Climate averages 1991–2020
Durban weather
in August.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 11th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Durban: daytime highs average 22.0°C and nights cool to about 14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 34 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 03 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pinetown (14 km away). In August its highs average 21.6°C, about as warm as Durban, with 34 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Durban ranks joint 25th of 95 for the warmest August highs and joint 76th of 95 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 95 cities is 21.0°C; Durban is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 22.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 34 mm to 60 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
Durban climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.6°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 91 | 13.0 | 13.814 h |
| February | 27.0°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 84 | 11.4 | 13.213 h |
| March | 26.3°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 90 | 11.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 24.7°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 74 | 8.5 | 11.411 h |
| May | 23.5°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 43 | 5.4 | 10.611 h |
| June | 22.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 28 | 4.6 | 10.310 h |
| July | 21.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 42 | 4.7 | 10.410 h |
| August, selected | 22.0°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 34 | 5.9 | 11.011 h |
| September | 22.5°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 60 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 22.9°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 89 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| November | 24.1°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 96 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| December | 25.5°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 94 | 13.1 | 14.014 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
- Pinetown in AugustSouth Africa · 14 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 11.7°C · 34 mm rain
- Ntuzuma in AugustSouth Africa · 15 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 12.3°C · 34 mm rain
- Mpumalanga in AugustSouth Africa · 38 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 8.8°C · 30 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in AugustSouth Africa · 64 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 13.9°C · 31 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in AugustSouth Africa · 67 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 8.7°C · 32 mm rain
- Richards Bay in AugustSouth Africa · 154 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 15.9°C · 39 mm rain
- Ladysmith in AugustSouth Africa · 189 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 6.5°C · 28 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in AugustSouth Africa · 203 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 7.5°C · 22 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 Durban) is explained once on the Durban year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pinetown and Ntuzuma lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.