Climate averages 1991–2020
Tunis weather
in August.
A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Tunis: daytime highs average 32.8°C and nights cool to about 22.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 8.9 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes August a very dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 34 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sīdī Ḥusayn (8 km away). In August its highs average 33.5°C, 0.7°C warmer than Tunis, with 9.0 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Tunisia, Tunis ranks joint 13th of 22 for the warmest August highs and joint 13th of 22 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 22 cities is 33.2°C; Tunis is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 8.9 mm to 38 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
Tunis climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.1°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 47 | 8.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 15.4°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 49 | 8.8 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.9°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 46 | 7.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 42 | 7.7 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.7°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 24 | 4.4 | 14.114 h |
| June | 29.3°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 10 | 1.6 | 14.615 h |
| July | 32.4°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 1.8 | 0.3 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 32.8°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 8.9 | 2.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 28.8°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 38 | 5.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.0°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 46 | 7.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 20.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 46 | 7.6 | 10.210 h |
| December | 16.3°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 46 | 8.3 | 9.710 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
- Sīdī Ḥusayn in AugustTunisia · 8 kmHigh 33.5°C · Low 22.1°C · 9.0 mm rain
- Sukrah in AugustTunisia · 10 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 22.8°C · 5.4 mm rain
- El Mourouj in AugustTunisia · 12 kmHigh 34.2°C · Low 21.9°C · 8.9 mm rain
- La Marsa in AugustTunisia · 16 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.0°C · 5.4 mm rain
- Bizerte in AugustTunisia · 57 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.2°C · 9.5 mm rain
- Hammamet in AugustTunisia · 62 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 23.1°C · 8.1 mm rain
- Nabeul in AugustTunisia · 65 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.3°C · 5.0 mm rain
- Sousse in AugustTunisia · 118 kmHigh 35.0°C · Low 22.5°C · 9.4 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 Tunis) is explained once on the Tunis year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
El Mourouj lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.