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St. John's in August

sweet spot busy · the best month to go · the warmest month of the year, the driest month of the year

The year in St. John's

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  1. St. John's in January: avoid
  2. St. John's in February: avoid
  3. St. John's in March: avoid
  4. St. John's in April: avoid
  5. St. John's in May: sweet spot
  6. St. John's in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. St. John's in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. St. John's in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. St. John's in September: sweet spot
  10. St. John's in October: ok
  11. St. John's in November: avoid
  12. St. John's in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
August at St. John's is 20°C by day and 14°C at night, with 8 rainy days and about 9 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high20°C
Nightly low14°C
Feels like, afternoon20°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more8 · 92 mm
Humidity83%
Sunshine9.0 h/day
Daylight14.2 h/day
Hiking22 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C good
Crowds65 / 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 the centre, 7 km from the airport (YYT): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: busy. Busiest from June to August; quietest from January to April.

St. John's in pictures

What to pack

  • A packable rain jacket for the 8 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 83%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 120 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Canadian dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Canada: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in St. John's: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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