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Mount Hood in August
sweet spot busy · the best month to go · the warmest month of the year
The year in Mount Hood
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- JanJMount Hood in January: avoid
- FebFMount Hood in February: avoid
- MarMMount Hood in March: avoid
- AprAMount Hood in April: avoid
- MayMMount Hood in May: ok, busy
- JunJMount Hood in June: good, busy
- JulJMount Hood in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugAMount Hood in August: sweet spot, busy
- SepSMount Hood in September: sweet spot
- OctOMount Hood in October: ok
- NovNMount Hood in November: avoid
- DecDMount Hood in December: avoid
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- Busy
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| Daily high | 22°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 10°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 21°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 3 · 25 mm |
| Humidity | 62% |
| Sunshine | 12.7 h/day |
| Daylight | 14.0 h/day |
| Hiking | 22 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C good |
| 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 Government Camp, below Timberline: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Mount Hood in pictures
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What to pack
- Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 10°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
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On arrival in Mount Hood: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
August elsewhere
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The other months at Mount Hood
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