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Tarragona: A view of a roman amphit near the ocean

Tarragona in August

goodbusy · a good time to go · the warmest month of the year

The year in Tarragona

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  1. Tarragona in January: good
  2. Tarragona in February: good
  3. Tarragona in March: good
  4. Tarragona in April: sweet spot
  5. Tarragona in May: sweet spot
  6. Tarragona in June: good, busy
  7. Tarragona in July: good, busy
  8. Tarragona in August: good, busy
  9. Tarragona in September: good, busy
  10. Tarragona in October: good, busy
  11. Tarragona in November: good
  12. Tarragona in December: good
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  • Busy
August at Tarragona is 30°C by day and 22°C at night, with 2 rainy days and about 12 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high30°C
Nightly low22°C
Feels like, afternoon33°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more2 · 44 mm
Humidity68%
Sunshine12.3 h/day
Daylight13.8 h/day
Days over 35°C1
Beach and sea28 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 27 °C, warm 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 Roman old town, 8 km from the airport (REU): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: busy. Busiest from June to October; quietest from November to April.

Public holidays in August

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Tarragona in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 30°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. Everything for Spain: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Tarragona: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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