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The coolest places in the world in August

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

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Rainfall
1 Grytviken South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -0.8 °C -0.8 °C 137 mm
2 Port-aux-Français French Southern Territories 3.9 °C 3.9 °C 83 mm
3 Stanley Falkland Islands 5.5 °C 5.5 °C 39 mm
4 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen 6.8 °C 6.8 °C 40 mm
5 Puerto Montt Chile 10 °C 10 °C 273 mm
6 Nuuk Greenland 11 °C 11 °C 80 mm
7 Christchurch New Zealand 11 °C 11 °C 53 mm
8 Canberra Australia 12 °C 12 °C 50 mm
9 Wellington New Zealand 12 °C 12 °C 83 mm
10 Temuco Chile 12 °C 12 °C 192 mm
11 Hobart Australia 12 °C 12 °C 57 mm
12 Tórshavn Faroe Islands 12 °C 12 °C 70 mm
13 La Paz Bolivia 13 °C 13 °C 22 mm
14 Talcahuano Chile 13 °C 13 °C 125 mm
15 Reykjavík Iceland 13 °C 13 °C 104 mm
16 Mar del Plata Argentina 14 °C 14 °C 55 mm
17 Tauranga New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 122 mm
18 Concepción Chile 14 °C 14 °C 125 mm
19 Hamilton New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 121 mm
20 Geelong Australia 14 °C 14 °C 42 mm
21 Valparaíso Chile 14 °C 14 °C 55 mm
22 Melbourne Australia 14 °C 14 °C 52 mm
23 Chillán Chile 14 °C 14 °C 166 mm
24 Auckland New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 107 mm
25 Murmansk Russia 14 °C 14 °C 64 mm
26 Peñalolén Chile 15 °C 15 °C 89 mm
27 Adelaide Australia 15 °C 15 °C 58 mm
28 Montevideo Uruguay 15 °C 15 °C 94 mm
29 Neuquén Argentina 15 °C 15 °C 13 mm
30 Puente Alto Chile 15 °C 15 °C 90 mm
31 Talca Chile 15 °C 15 °C 110 mm
32 Bahía Blanca Argentina 15 °C 15 °C 34 mm
33 Oruro Bolivia 15 °C 15 °C 12 mm
34 Juliaca Peru 15 °C 15 °C 18 mm
35 La Plata Argentina 15 °C 15 °C 69 mm
36 Santiago Chile 16 °C 16 °C 79 mm
37 Buenos Aires Argentina 16 °C 16 °C 72 mm
38 Avellaneda Argentina 16 °C 16 °C 67 mm
39 Rancagua Chile 16 °C 16 °C 107 mm
40 Aberdeen United Kingdom 16 °C 16 °C 72 mm
41 Cusco Peru 16 °C 16 °C 22 mm
42 Douglas Isle of Man 16 °C 16 °C 82 mm
43 Rio Grande Brazil 16 °C 16 °C 110 mm
44 Huancayo Peru 16 °C 16 °C 41 mm
45 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 16 °C 16 °C 105 mm
46 Tunja Colombia 16 °C 16 °C 115 mm
47 Viña del Mar Chile 16 °C 16 °C 54 mm
48 Cape Town South Africa 16 °C 16 °C 74 mm
49 Severodvinsk Russia 17 °C 17 °C 79 mm
50 Maipú Chile 17 °C 17 °C 81 mm

Only destinations with a published page for that month are ranked. The ranking is ours; the underlying values are reproduced from the source.

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.