Glacier National Park in August
sweet spot busy · the best month to go
The year in Glacier National Park
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- MarMGlacier National Park in March: avoid
- AprAGlacier National Park in April: good
- MayMGlacier National Park in May: sweet spot
- JunJGlacier National Park in June: good, busy
- JulJGlacier National Park in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugAGlacier National Park in August: sweet spot, busy
- SepSGlacier National Park in September: sweet spot
- OctOGlacier National Park in October: ok
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- DecDGlacier National Park in December: avoid
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The numbers
| Daily high | 26°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 12°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 25°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 4 · 32 mm |
| Humidity | 63% |
| Sunshine | 12.4 h/day |
| Daylight | 14.3 h/day |
| Days over 35°C | 0 |
| Hiking | 14 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C |
| 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 Apgar and West Glacier, the west entrance, 31 km from the airport (FCA): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Glacier National Park in pictures
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Vulturesong, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Vulturesong, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 26°C.
- Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 12°C.
- Sun protection: about 12 hours of sunshine a day.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
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On arrival in Glacier National Park: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
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The other months at Glacier National Park
- January avoid
- February avoid
- March avoid
- April good
- May sweet spot
- June good
- July sweet spot
- August
- September sweet spot
- October ok
- November avoid
- December avoid
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