Average August Temperatures for New Mexico

Average temperatures for August at cities, towns, parks and lakes throughout New Mexico are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

Southern New Mexico

Average August temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
91	68	Alamogordo	33	20
94	63	Bitter Lake Wildlife Refuge	34	17
95	69	Carlsbad	35	21
90	66	Carlsbad Caverns National Park	32	19
84	53	Cuba	29	11
93	69	Elephant Butte Lake Dam	34	20
87	53	Gila Hot Springs	31	12
92	68	Hobbs	33	20
94	68	Las Cruces	34	20
95	69	Roswell	35	20
79	50	Ruidoso	26	10
95	64	White Sands National Monument	35	18

Central New Mexico

Average daily temperatures in August
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
89	65	Albuquerque	32	18
91	64	Clovis	33	18
92	66	Conchas Lake Dam	33	19
82	50	El Morro National Monument	28	10
86	53	Gallup	30	12
86	56	Gran Quivira National Monument	30	13
89	53	Grants	32	12
81	53	Las Vegas	27	12
83	52	Pecos National Monument	28	11
83	54	Santa Fe	29	12
89	61	Socorro	32	16
92	64	Tucumcari	34	18

Northern New Mexico

August temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
85	57	Abiquiu Lake Dam	30	14
91	57	Aztec Ruins National Monument	33	14
87	53	Chaco Canyon National Monument	30	12
87	60	Clayton	30	15
77	43	Eagle Nest	25	6
82	48	El Vado Lake Dam	28	9
87	60	Farmington	31	15
76	48	Lake Maloya (Sugarite Canyon Park)	25	9
82	50	Raton	28	10
72	40	Red River	22	5
84	51	Taos	29	11

Average Temperatures for New Mexico in August

Southern New Mexico

Central New Mexico

Northern New Mexico

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