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The coolest places in the world in August: ranked by average high temperature

Grytviken tops the list at -0.8 °C in August. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in the world.

Top three in August: Grytviken (-0.8 °C) , Port-aux-Français (3.9 °C) , Stanley (5.5 °C) . Between first and 50th place the avg high differs by 17 °C.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Grytviken South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -0.8 °C -0.8 °C -4.5 °C 137 mm 19 161 h 0.4 °C
2 Port-aux-Français French Southern Territories 3.9 °C 3.9 °C -1.0 °C 83 mm 14 185 h 2.9 °C
3 Stanley Falkland Islands 5.5 °C 5.5 °C 2.0 °C 39 mm 10 192 h 5.1 °C
4 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen 6.8 °C 6.8 °C 3.8 °C 40 mm 9 289 h –
5 Puerto Montt Chile 10 °C 10 °C 5.2 °C 273 mm 21 200 h 10 °C
6 Nuuk Greenland 11 °C 11 °C 5.5 °C 80 mm 11 273 h 5.2 °C
7 Christchurch New Zealand 11 °C 11 °C 3.6 °C 53 mm 9 245 h 9.1 °C
8 Canberra Australia 12 °C 12 °C 2.0 °C 50 mm 7 277 h –
9 Wellington New Zealand 12 °C 12 °C 8.8 °C 83 mm 13 255 h 12 °C
10 Temuco Chile 12 °C 12 °C 4.3 °C 192 mm 15 211 h –
11 Hobart Australia 12 °C 12 °C 5.4 °C 57 mm 11 250 h –
12 Tórshavn Faroe Islands 12 °C 12 °C 9.8 °C 70 mm 15 269 h 10 °C
13 La Paz Bolivia 13 °C 13 °C 1.1 °C 22 mm 6 339 h –
14 Talcahuano Chile 13 °C 13 °C 7.1 °C 125 mm 12 244 h 12 °C
15 Reykjavík Iceland 13 °C 13 °C 8.2 °C 104 mm 15 293 h 11 °C
16 Mar del Plata Argentina 14 °C 14 °C 6.7 °C 55 mm 6 247 h 10 °C
17 Tauranga New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 7.9 °C 122 mm 13 262 h 15 °C
18 Concepción Chile 14 °C 14 °C 6.4 °C 125 mm 12 244 h 12 °C
19 Hamilton New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 6.1 °C 121 mm 15 255 h –
20 Geelong Australia 14 °C 14 °C 7.5 °C 42 mm 10 259 h 13 °C
21 Valparaíso Chile 14 °C 14 °C 9.7 °C 55 mm 5 282 h 13 °C
22 Melbourne Australia 14 °C 14 °C 7.1 °C 52 mm 11 259 h 11 °C
23 Chillán Chile 14 °C 14 °C 4.5 °C 166 mm 12 237 h –
24 Auckland New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 9.5 °C 107 mm 15 272 h 14 °C
25 Murmansk Russia 14 °C 14 °C 8.2 °C 64 mm 12 248 h –
26 Peñalolén Chile 15 °C 15 °C 2.7 °C 89 mm 8 270 h –
27 Adelaide Australia 15 °C 15 °C 8.8 °C 58 mm 10 281 h 13 °C
28 Montevideo Uruguay 15 °C 15 °C 9.6 °C 94 mm 8 245 h 12 °C
29 Neuquén Argentina 15 °C 15 °C 4.0 °C 13 mm 3 273 h –
30 Puente Alto Chile 15 °C 15 °C 2.5 °C 90 mm 8 270 h –
31 Talca Chile 15 °C 15 °C 5.0 °C 110 mm 9 243 h –
32 Bahía Blanca Argentina 15 °C 15 °C 6.5 °C 34 mm 5 256 h 8.6 °C
33 Oruro Bolivia 15 °C 15 °C -0.7 °C 12 mm 3 338 h –
34 Juliaca Peru 15 °C 15 °C -0.6 °C 18 mm 5 344 h –
35 La Plata Argentina 15 °C 15 °C 8.7 °C 69 mm 6 249 h 13 °C
36 Santiago Chile 16 °C 16 °C 3.8 °C 79 mm 7 271 h –
37 Buenos Aires Argentina 16 °C 16 °C 9.0 °C 72 mm 7 251 h 13 °C
38 Avellaneda Argentina 16 °C 16 °C 8.6 °C 67 mm 6 248 h 13 °C
39 Rancagua Chile 16 °C 16 °C 3.2 °C 107 mm 9 254 h –
40 Aberdeen United Kingdom 16 °C 16 °C 12 °C 72 mm 14 313 h 13 °C
41 Cusco Peru 16 °C 16 °C 5.2 °C 22 mm 6 336 h –
42 Douglas Isle of Man 16 °C 16 °C 14 °C 82 mm 13 326 h 15 °C
43 Rio Grande Brazil 16 °C 16 °C 12 °C 110 mm 10 251 h 14 °C
44 Huancayo Peru 16 °C 16 °C 5.6 °C 41 mm 12 345 h –
45 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 16 °C 16 °C 9.7 °C 105 mm 12 285 h 12 °C
46 Tunja Colombia 16 °C 16 °C 7.8 °C 115 mm 26 329 h –
47 Viña del Mar Chile 16 °C 16 °C 8.1 °C 54 mm 5 282 h 13 °C
48 Cape Town South Africa 16 °C 16 °C 9.5 °C 74 mm 9 289 h 15 °C
49 Severodvinsk Russia 17 °C 17 °C 11 °C 79 mm 12 323 h 13 °C
50 Maipú Chile 17 °C 17 °C 4.4 °C 81 mm 7 271 h –

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

July: top 5

  1. Grytviken -1.0 °C
  2. Port-aux-Français 3.9 °C
  3. Stanley 4.6 °C
  4. Longyearbyen 8.2 °C
  5. Puerto Montt 9.6 °C

Full ranking for July

September: top 5

  1. Grytviken -0.2 °C
  2. Longyearbyen 2.4 °C
  3. Port-aux-Français 4.5 °C
  4. Stanley 6.6 °C
  5. Nuuk 6.8 °C

Full ranking for September

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
The average daily high temperature, in °C, in August, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in the world with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by population.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.