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The driest places in Europe in August

Limassol tops the list at 1.4 mm in August. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Rainfall
1 Limassol Cyprus 1.4 mm 33 °C 1 mm
2 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 2.3 mm 25 °C 2 mm
3 Sevilla Spain 2.4 mm 35 °C 2 mm
4 Nicosia Cyprus 3.1 mm 36 °C 3 mm
5 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 3.1 mm 33 °C 3 mm
6 Valletta Malta 3.5 mm 28 °C 3 mm
7 Almería Spain 3.6 mm 32 °C 4 mm
8 Lisbon Portugal 4.2 mm 27 °C 4 mm
9 Gibraltar Gibraltar 4.2 mm 28 °C 4 mm
10 Badajoz Spain 4.4 mm 33 °C 4 mm
11 Marbella Spain 4.4 mm 28 °C 4 mm
12 Athens Greece 4.7 mm 33 °C 5 mm
13 Málaga Spain 4.8 mm 29 °C 5 mm
14 Córdoba Spain 5.6 mm 36 °C 6 mm
15 La Laguna Spain 5.6 mm 22 °C 6 mm
16 Cartagena Spain 7.1 mm 29 °C 7 mm
17 Madrid Spain 8.5 mm 32 °C 8 mm
18 Ciudad Lineal Spain 9.0 mm 31 °C 9 mm
19 Elche Spain 9.4 mm 31 °C 9 mm
20 Murcia Spain 9.5 mm 33 °C 10 mm
21 Alcalá de Henares Spain 12 mm 32 °C 12 mm
22 Granada Spain 13 mm 33 °C 13 mm
23 Astrakhan Russia 13 mm 31 °C 13 mm
24 Pátra Greece 13 mm 32 °C 13 mm
25 Taranto Italy 14 mm 31 °C 14 mm
26 Valladolid Spain 14 mm 30 °C 14 mm
27 Catania Italy 14 mm 32 °C 14 mm
28 Alicante Spain 14 mm 30 °C 14 mm
29 Palma Spain 17 mm 31 °C 17 mm
30 Albacete Spain 17 mm 32 °C 17 mm
31 Toulon France 17 mm 28 °C 17 mm
32 Zaragoza Spain 19 mm 32 °C 19 mm
33 Palermo Italy 19 mm 30 °C 19 mm
34 Castelló de la Plana Spain 19 mm 28 °C 19 mm
35 Burgos Spain 20 mm 26 °C 20 mm
36 Sevastopol Ukraine 21 mm 27 °C 21 mm
37 Valencia Spain 22 mm 30 °C 22 mm
38 Marseille France 22 mm 28 °C 22 mm
39 Rome Italy 22 mm 31 °C 22 mm
40 Naples Italy 23 mm 30 °C 23 mm
41 Volgograd Russia 23 mm 29 °C 23 mm
42 Skopje North Macedonia 23 mm 31 °C 23 mm
43 Bari Italy 24 mm 29 °C 24 mm
44 Volgodonsk Russia 24 mm 29 °C 24 mm
45 Messina Italy 25 mm 30 °C 25 mm
46 Plovdiv Bulgaria 25 mm 29 °C 25 mm
47 Logroño Spain 26 mm 27 °C 26 mm
48 Orenburg Russia 26 mm 26 °C 26 mm
49 Nice France 27 mm 27 °C 27 mm
50 Monaco Monaco 28 mm 27 °C 28 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.