Climate averages 1991–2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria weather
in August.
A warm, very dry month: the warmest and the 3rd 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: daytime highs average 24.5°C and nights cool to about 19.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 1.5 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes August a very dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Telde (12 km away). In August its highs average 25.3°C, 0.8°C warmer than Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with 1.5 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ranks 82nd of 93 for the warmest August highs and joint 1st of 93 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 93 cities is 29.3°C; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is 4.8°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 24.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 1.5 mm to 9.8 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
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.1°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 22 | 4.6 | 10.611 h |
| February | 18.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 25 | 4.6 | 11.211 h |
| March | 19.0°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 20 | 4.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.6°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 12 | 3.4 | 12.813 h |
| May | 20.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 6.5 | 1.5 | 13.514 h |
| June | 22.2°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 13.914 h |
| July | 23.5°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 0.3 | 0.0 | 13.714 h |
| August, selected | 24.5°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 1.5 | 0.4 | 13.113 h |
| September | 24.3°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 9.8 | 1.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.4°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 24 | 4.9 | 11.512 h |
| November | 21.2°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 22 | 5.3 | 10.811 h |
| December | 19.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 30 | 5.6 | 10.410 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
- Telde in AugustSpain · 12 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 20.1°C · 1.5 mm rain
- Santa Lucía in AugustSpain · 24 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 18.6°C · 1.5 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife in AugustSpain · 92 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 22.2°C · 4.7 mm rain
- Arona in AugustSpain · 124 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 19.2°C · 1.8 mm rain
- Laayoune in AugustWestern Sahara · 244 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 19.9°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Tan-Tan in AugustMorocco · 424 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 19.9°C · 1.7 mm rain
- Dakhla in AugustWestern Sahara · 494 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.6°C · 1.3 mm rain
- Funchal in AugustPortugal · 528 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 20.9°C · 6.6 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is explained once on the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Telde and Santa Lucía lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.