Climate averages 1991–2020
Taipei weather
in August.
A hot, very 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 hot month in Taipei: daytime highs average 30.6°C and nights cool to about 25.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 302 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 13 h 01 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Neihu (7 km away). In August its highs average 30.4°C, about as warm as Taipei, with 302 mm of rain.
Among the 28 cities listed in Taiwan, Taipei ranks joint 2nd of 28 for the warmest August highs and joint 8th of 28 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 28 cities is 29.6°C; Taipei is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.9°C to 28.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 302 mm to 258 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
Taipei climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.7°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 87 | 14.2 | 10.811 h |
| February | 18.5°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 95 | 12.0 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.9°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 105 | 13.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.2°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 132 | 16.3 | 12.713 h |
| May | 27.2°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 200 | 19.8 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.6°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 241 | 20.8 | 13.714 h |
| July | 31.1°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 226 | 19.1 | 13.514 h |
| August, selected | 30.6°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 302 | 20.7 | 13.013 h |
| September | 28.6°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 258 | 16.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 25.4°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 213 | 16.5 | 11.612 h |
| November | 22.8°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 137 | 15.5 | 10.911 h |
| December | 19.3°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 108 | 15.0 | 10.611 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
- Neihu in AugustTaiwan · 7 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 26.2°C · 302 mm rain
- Banqiao in AugustTaiwan · 7 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 25.2°C · 302 mm rain
- Shulin in AugustTaiwan · 13 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.8°C · 302 mm rain
- Danshui, Taiwan in AugustTaiwan · 16 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 26.5°C · 187 mm rain
- Sanxia in AugustTaiwan · 20 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 25.1°C · 225 mm rain
- Keelung in AugustTaiwan · 23 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 26.6°C · 171 mm rain
- Taoyuan in AugustTaiwan · 24 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.7°C · 225 mm rain
- Bade in AugustTaiwan · 28 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.2°C · 225 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 Taipei) is explained once on the Taipei year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Banqiao, Neihu and Shulin lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.