Climate averages 1991–2020
Malmö weather
in August.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a mild month in Malmö: daytime highs average 20.8°C and nights cool to about 14.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 66 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 03 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lund (16 km away). In August its highs average 20.7°C, about as warm as Malmö, with 80 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Sweden, Malmö ranks joint 1st of 21 for the warmest August highs and 3rd of 21 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 21 cities is 20.0°C; Malmö is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.0°C to 16.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 66 mm to 53 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
Malmö climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.7°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 49 | 11.3 | 7.78 h |
| February | 3.1°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 40 | 9.5 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.0°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 40 | 9.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.9°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 36 | 8.7 | 14.114 h |
| May | 15.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 41 | 9.5 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 57 | 10.5 | 17.417 h |
| July | 21.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 58 | 10.8 | 16.917 h |
| August, selected | 20.8°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 66 | 11.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 16.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 53 | 9.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 54 | 10.9 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.0°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 48 | 11.1 | 8.48 h |
| December | 3.9°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 53 | 11.3 | 7.27 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
- Lund in AugustSweden · 16 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 13.5°C · 80 mm rain
- Copenhagen in AugustDenmark · 28 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 14.5°C · 77 mm rain
- Helsingborg in AugustSweden · 53 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 13.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Halmstad in AugustSweden · 119 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 13.6°C · 102 mm rain
- Odense in AugustDenmark · 166 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 14.0°C · 70 mm rain
- Rostock in AugustGermany · 177 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 14.8°C · 74 mm rain
- Växjö in AugustSweden · 180 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 12.8°C · 76 mm rain
- Århus in AugustDenmark · 184 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 13.9°C · 70 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 Malmö) is explained once on the Malmö year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.