Average Rainfall for the Netherlands in August

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August at cities and other places in the Netherlands.

Each location has a total for the normal amount of precipitation it usually gets this month. Many places also have a count of the number of days with wet weather. The calculation of days only includes those when precipitation amounted to at least 0.1 millimetres (0.004 inches).

The month's total rainfall is an average of weather data collected during 1991 to 2020.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the country: North Netherlands, East Netherlands, West Netherlands and South Netherlands.

North Netherlands covers the provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe. East Netherlands includes Overijssel, Gelderland and Flevoland. West Netherlands provinces are Utrecht, North Holland, South Holland and Zeeland. South Netherlands has North Brabant and Limburg provinces.

North Netherlands

Average monthly precipitation in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
20 Groningen 3.1 78
19 Hoogeveen 3.1 80
20 Leeuwarden 3.7 94
18 Oldambt 3.0 75
19 Stavoren 3.6 91

East Netherlands

August averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
18 Arnhem 3.3 84
17 Berkelland 3.3 85
18 Enschede 3.1 79
19 Lelystad 3.6 92
17 Lingewaal 3.2 80
18 Noordoostpolder 3.4 86
17 Zwolle 3.1 80

West Netherlands

Average amount of rain in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
19 Amsterdam 3.9 99
19 Den Helder 3.5 89
Hoek van Holland 4.0 101
19 Hoorn 3.9 98
Leiden
18 Lopik 3.1 78
19 Rotterdam 3.6 92
17 Terneuzen 3.2 81
19 Utrecht 3.3 84
18 Vlissingen 3.2 82

South Netherlands

Precipitation totals for August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
17 Breda 2.8 72
17 Eindhoven 2.9 73
17 Maastricht 3.3 83
17 Uden 2.9 73
16 Venlo 3.0 77
Reference

KNMI, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut. Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat. Klimaatviewer

Netherlands Precipitation
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