The Amalfi Coast in August
sweet spot busy · one of the best months to go · the warmest month of the year
The year in The Amalfi Coast
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- JanJThe Amalfi Coast in January: ok
- FebFThe Amalfi Coast in February: ok
- MarMThe Amalfi Coast in March: ok
- AprAThe Amalfi Coast in April: good
- MayMThe Amalfi Coast in May: good, busy
- JunJThe Amalfi Coast in June: sweet spot, busy
- JulJThe Amalfi Coast in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugAThe Amalfi Coast in August: sweet spot, busy
- SepSThe Amalfi Coast in September: sweet spot
- OctOThe Amalfi Coast in October: good
- NovNThe Amalfi Coast in November: ok
- DecDThe Amalfi Coast in December: ok
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 31°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 22°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 35°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 2 · 36 mm |
| Humidity | 70% |
| Sunshine | 12.8 h/day |
| Daylight | 13.7 h/day |
| Days over 35°C | 3 |
| Crowds | 65 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Amalfi: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in August
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
The Amalfi Coast in pictures
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Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
- Sun protection: about 13 hours of sunshine a day.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type C and F and L plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution. US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Italy: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in The Amalfi Coast: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
August elsewhere
In August from
The other months at The Amalfi Coast
- January ok
- February ok
- March ok
- April good
- May good
- June sweet spot
- July sweet spot
- August
- September sweet spot
- October good
- November ok
- December ok
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