Average Rainfall for Mississippi in August

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August at cities, communities and other locations around Mississippi.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month along with information on the number of days with wet weather. The count of days includes those when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The rainfall totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Gulf Coast, Southern, Central and Northern Mississippi.

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Average monthly precipitation in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
13 Biloxi 6.9 176
12 Gulfport 7.0 178
12 Pascagoula 8.6 219
11 Picayune 6.4 162

Southern Mississippi

August averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
11 Hattiesburg 6.3 159
11 Laurel 5.5 139
12 McComb 5.8 148
10 Natchez 4.9 124

Central Mississippi

Average amount of rain in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Columbus 4.5 114
8 Greenville 2.8 72
8 Greenwood 3.2 82
11 Jackson 4.7 119
10 Meridian 4.4 111
10 Starkville 4.2 107
8 Vicksburg 3.6 90

Northern Mississippi

Precipitation totals for August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
7 Clarksdale 2.9 72
7 Corinth City 3.6 91
7 Grenada 3.6 91
8 Holly Springs 3.4 85
9 Oxford 3.9 99
7 Tunica 3.2 80
9 Tupelo 4.1 103
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

Mississippi Precipitation
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