Climate averages 1991–2020

East Kilbride weather
in August.

A mild, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 16.6°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 10.2°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 101 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in East Kilbride · average highYear overview

August is a mild month in East Kilbride: daytime highs average 16.6°C and nights cool to about 10.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 04 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Glasgow (12 km away). In August its highs average 17.2°C, 0.6°C warmer than East Kilbride, with 101 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, East Kilbride ranks 142nd of 143 for the warmest August highs and joint 134th of 143 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 143 cities is 19.7°C; East Kilbride is 3.1°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 2.2°C to 14.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 101 mm to 83 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -505101520 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

East Kilbride climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for East Kilbride, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 5.2°C0.8°C0.8°C11616.77.78 h
February 5.8°C0.7°C0.7°C9814.59.610 h
March 7.5°C1.5°C1.5°C8714.511.812 h
April 10.1°C3.0°C3.0°C7413.814.114 h
May 13.2°C5.7°C5.7°C7913.616.216 h
June 15.4°C8.7°C8.7°C8614.217.417 h
July 16.9°C10.4°C10.4°C9215.516.917 h
August, selected 16.6°C10.2°C10.2°C10115.715.115 h
September 14.4°C8.4°C8.4°C8313.312.813 h
October 11.1°C5.7°C5.7°C11015.510.510 h
November 7.6°C2.9°C2.9°C10515.98.48 h
December 5.3°C0.7°C0.7°C11515.87.17 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

Distance from East Kilbride

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for East Kilbride) is explained once on the East Kilbride year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Glasgow lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.