Climate averages 1991–2020
El Paso weather
in August.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 3rd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in El Paso: daytime highs average 33.9°C and nights cool to about 21.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 19 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ciudad Juárez (5 km away). In August its highs average 33.9°C, about as warm as El Paso, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, El Paso ranks joint 68th of 498 for the warmest August highs and 141st of 498 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 498 cities is 29.9°C; El Paso is 4.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.2°C to 30.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 24 mm to 31 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
El Paso climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.1°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 13 | 3.0 | 10.310 h |
| February | 17.4°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 12 | 2.6 | 11.011 h |
| March | 21.7°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 8.9 | 1.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.2°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 4.1 | 1.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 30.9°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 7.6 | 1.8 | 13.814 h |
| June | 35.6°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 10 | 2.2 | 14.214 h |
| July | 34.7°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 30 | 5.7 | 14.014 h |
| August, selected | 33.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 24 | 5.2 | 13.313 h |
| September | 30.7°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 31 | 4.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 25.8°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 18 | 3.5 | 11.411 h |
| November | 19.0°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 12 | 2.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 13.8°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 18 | 3.6 | 10.110 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
- Ciudad Juárez in AugustMexico · 5 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 21.9°C · 24 mm rain
- Las Cruces in AugustUnited States · 67 kmHigh 34.2°C · Low 21.4°C · 26 mm rain
- Agua Prieta in AugustMexico · 294 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 20.6°C · 46 mm rain
- Chihuahua in AugustMexico · 349 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 19.7°C · 65 mm rain
- Albuquerque in AugustUnited States · 370 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 18.9°C · 18 mm rain
- Cuauhtémoc in AugustMexico · 375 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 14.4°C · 105 mm rain
- Rio Rancho in AugustUnited States · 387 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 18.3°C · 28 mm rain
- Odessa in AugustUnited States · 389 kmHigh 33.4°C · Low 22.3°C · 37 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 El Paso) is explained once on the El Paso year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ciudad Juárez lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.