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Gran Canaria in August
sweet spot · one of the best months to go · the warmest month of the year
The year in Gran Canaria
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- JanJGran Canaria in January: good, busy
- FebFGran Canaria in February: good, busy
- MarMGran Canaria in March: good
- AprAGran Canaria in April: sweet spot
- MayMGran Canaria in May: sweet spot
- JunJGran Canaria in June: sweet spot
- JulJGran Canaria in July: sweet spot
- AugAGran Canaria in August: sweet spot
- SepSGran Canaria in September: sweet spot
- OctOGran Canaria in October: good
- NovNGran Canaria in November: good
- DecDGran Canaria in December: good, busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 31°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 24°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 34°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 0 · 1 mm |
| Humidity | 54% |
| Sunshine | 12.0 h/day |
| Daylight | 13.1 h/day |
| Days over 35°C | 6 |
| Hiking | 4 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C |
| Beach and sea | 25 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 23 °C, fresh fair |
| Crowds | 100 / 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 Maspalomas, 27 km from the airport (LPA): 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.
Gran Canaria in pictures
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Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Marc Ryckaert (MJJR), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
- Plan the middle of the day indoors: 6 days a month pass 35°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
Type C and F 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 Spain: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Gran Canaria: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
August elsewhere
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The other months at Gran Canaria
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