Climate averages 1991–2020
Gandia weather
in August.
A hot, fairly dry month: one of the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Gandia: daytime highs average 30.1°C and nights cool to about 22.0°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 26 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 41 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Benidorm (48 km away). In August its highs average 31.2°C, 1.1°C warmer than Gandia, with 13 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Gandia ranks 46th of 93 for the warmest August highs and joint 65th of 93 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 93 cities is 29.3°C; Gandia is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.8°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 26 mm to 82 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
Gandia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.3°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 54 | 5.9 | 9.810 h |
| February | 15.0°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 42 | 5.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 17.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 53 | 6.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.6°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 53 | 6.1 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.8°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 36 | 5.1 | 14.314 h |
| June | 27.2°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 19 | 3.5 | 14.915 h |
| July | 30.1°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 9.4 | 2.1 | 14.615 h |
| August, selected | 30.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 26 | 4.4 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.3°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 82 | 8.0 | 12.512 h |
| October | 22.5°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 76 | 7.4 | 11.211 h |
| November | 17.7°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 64 | 6.7 | 10.110 h |
| December | 14.9°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 61 | 6.4 | 9.59 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
- Benidorm in AugustSpain · 48 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 22.6°C · 13 mm rain
- Torrent in AugustSpain · 58 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 20.9°C · 23 mm rain
- Valencia, Spain in AugustSpain · 59 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 21.8°C · 23 mm rain
- Alicante in AugustSpain · 74 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.6°C · 5.9 mm rain
- Elche in AugustSpain · 90 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 21.5°C · 9.8 mm rain
- Castelló de la Plana in AugustSpain · 114 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 21.9°C · 20 mm rain
- Torrevieja in AugustSpain · 118 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 22.4°C · 6.7 mm rain
- Orihuela in AugustSpain · 118 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 21.2°C · 7.4 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 Gandia) is explained once on the Gandia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.