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The driest places in Europe in August: ranked by rainfall

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

Top three in August: Limassol (1.4 mm) , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2.3 mm) , Sevilla (2.4 mm) . Between first and 50th place the rainfall differs by 26 mm.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Limassol Cyprus 1.4 mm 33 °C 24 °C 1 mm 0 398 h 27 °C
2 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 2.3 mm 25 °C 21 °C 2 mm 1 375 h 23 °C
3 Sevilla Spain 2.4 mm 35 °C 22 °C 2 mm 0 397 h –
4 Nicosia Cyprus 3.1 mm 36 °C 24 °C 3 mm 1 399 h 28 °C
5 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 3.1 mm 33 °C 20 °C 3 mm 1 398 h 23 °C
6 Valletta Malta 3.5 mm 28 °C 24 °C 3 mm 1 389 h 27 °C
7 Almería Spain 3.6 mm 32 °C 23 °C 4 mm 1 395 h 24 °C
8 Lisbon Portugal 4.2 mm 27 °C 19 °C 4 mm 1 392 h 19 °C
9 Gibraltar Gibraltar 4.2 mm 28 °C 22 °C 4 mm 1 395 h 22 °C
10 Badajoz Spain 4.4 mm 33 °C 19 °C 4 mm 1 394 h –
11 Marbella Spain 4.4 mm 28 °C 22 °C 4 mm 1 395 h 22 °C
12 Athens Greece 4.7 mm 33 °C 22 °C 5 mm 1 401 h 26 °C
13 Málaga Spain 4.8 mm 29 °C 22 °C 5 mm 1 396 h 23 °C
14 Córdoba Spain 5.6 mm 36 °C 22 °C 6 mm 1 397 h –
15 La Laguna Spain 5.6 mm 22 °C 19 °C 6 mm 1 380 h 23 °C
16 Cartagena Spain 7.1 mm 29 °C 23 °C 7 mm 1 392 h 26 °C
17 Madrid Spain 8.5 mm 32 °C 18 °C 8 mm 2 398 h –
18 Ciudad Lineal Spain 9.0 mm 31 °C 18 °C 9 mm 2 398 h –
19 Elche Spain 9.4 mm 31 °C 21 °C 9 mm 2 393 h 26 °C
20 Murcia Spain 9.5 mm 33 °C 21 °C 10 mm 2 392 h –
21 Alcalá de Henares Spain 12 mm 32 °C 18 °C 12 mm 2 397 h –
22 Granada Spain 13 mm 33 °C 20 °C 13 mm 4 397 h –
23 Astrakhan Russia 13 mm 31 °C 20 °C 13 mm 3 382 h –
24 Pátra Greece 13 mm 32 °C 21 °C 13 mm 3 399 h 26 °C
25 Taranto Italy 14 mm 31 °C 22 °C 14 mm 3 402 h 26 °C
26 Valladolid Spain 14 mm 30 °C 15 °C 14 mm 3 391 h –
27 Catania Italy 14 mm 32 °C 23 °C 14 mm 3 387 h 26 °C
28 Alicante Spain 14 mm 30 °C 23 °C 14 mm 3 393 h 26 °C
29 Palma Spain 17 mm 31 °C 23 °C 17 mm 2 395 h 26 °C
30 Albacete Spain 17 mm 32 °C 18 °C 17 mm 3 391 h –
31 Toulon France 17 mm 28 °C 20 °C 17 mm 3 397 h 23 °C
32 Zaragoza Spain 19 mm 32 °C 19 °C 19 mm 4 393 h –
33 Palermo Italy 19 mm 30 °C 23 °C 19 mm 3 393 h 27 °C
34 Castelló de la Plana Spain 19 mm 28 °C 22 °C 19 mm 3 387 h 26 °C
35 Burgos Spain 20 mm 26 °C 14 °C 20 mm 4 384 h –
36 Sevastopol Ukraine 21 mm 27 °C 20 °C 21 mm 4 402 h 24 °C
37 Valencia Spain 22 mm 30 °C 22 °C 22 mm 4 384 h 26 °C
38 Marseille France 22 mm 28 °C 20 °C 22 mm 3 397 h 22 °C
39 Rome Italy 22 mm 31 °C 20 °C 22 mm 4 394 h –
40 Naples Italy 23 mm 30 °C 21 °C 23 mm 4 392 h 26 °C
41 Volgograd Russia 23 mm 29 °C 18 °C 23 mm 4 378 h –
42 Skopje North Macedonia 23 mm 31 °C 18 °C 23 mm 4 385 h –
43 Bari Italy 24 mm 29 °C 22 °C 24 mm 5 400 h 26 °C
44 Volgodonsk Russia 24 mm 29 °C 19 °C 24 mm 4 378 h –
45 Messina Italy 25 mm 30 °C 22 °C 25 mm 5 392 h 27 °C
46 Plovdiv Bulgaria 25 mm 29 °C 18 °C 25 mm 4 389 h –
47 Logroño Spain 26 mm 27 °C 15 °C 26 mm 5 366 h –
48 Orenburg Russia 26 mm 26 °C 15 °C 26 mm 5 360 h –
49 Nice France 27 mm 27 °C 21 °C 27 mm 6 393 h 25 °C
50 Monaco Monaco 28 mm 27 °C 21 °C 28 mm 6 393 h 25 °C

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. Valletta 0.5 mm
  2. Almería 0.7 mm
  3. La Laguna 0.7 mm
  4. Limassol 1.0 mm
  5. Marbella 1.2 mm

Full ranking for July

September: top 5

  1. Limassol 3.2 mm
  2. Nicosia 11 mm
  3. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 12 mm
  4. La Laguna 14 mm
  5. Astrakhan 15 mm

Full ranking for September

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Total precipitation, in mm, 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 Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
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.