Climate averages 1991–2020
Kaohsiung weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Kaohsiung: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 24.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 363 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes August a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 55 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tainan (43 km away). In August its highs average 29.7°C, about as warm as Kaohsiung, with 401 mm of rain.
Among the 28 cities listed in Taiwan, Kaohsiung ranks joint 17th of 28 for the warmest August highs and 19th of 28 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 28 cities is 29.6°C; Kaohsiung is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 363 mm to 189 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
Kaohsiung climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 35 | 5.9 | 10.911 h |
| February | 23.5°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 26 | 6.1 | 11.411 h |
| March | 26.0°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 36 | 7.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 28.3°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 82 | 10.0 | 12.713 h |
| May | 29.3°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 232 | 17.3 | 13.213 h |
| June | 29.5°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 338 | 20.5 | 13.513 h |
| July | 30.0°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 275 | 19.7 | 13.413 h |
| August, selected | 29.4°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 363 | 21.2 | 12.913 h |
| September | 29.2°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 189 | 16.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.9°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 80 | 11.5 | 11.612 h |
| November | 26.1°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 58 | 8.1 | 11.111 h |
| December | 23.2°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 40 | 5.6 | 10.811 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
- Tainan in AugustTaiwan · 43 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 25.5°C · 401 mm rain
- Yongkang in AugustTaiwan · 46 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 24.7°C · 401 mm rain
- Xinying in AugustTaiwan · 77 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 24.5°C · 407 mm rain
- Taitung in AugustTaiwan · 87 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 25.7°C · 315 mm rain
- Chiayi City in AugustTaiwan · 97 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 23.3°C · 667 mm rain
- Douliu in AugustTaiwan · 124 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 23.2°C · 441 mm rain
- Nantou, Taiwan in AugustTaiwan · 149 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 21.8°C · 384 mm rain
- Yuanlin in AugustTaiwan · 151 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.9°C · 287 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 Kaohsiung) is explained once on the Kaohsiung year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.