Average Rainfall for Oregon in August

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August at cities, towns and lakes in Oregon.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, 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: Oregon Coast, Willamette Valley, Cascade Mountains, Central Oregon and Eastern Oregon.

Oregon Coast

Average monthly precipitation in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Astoria 1.1 28
4 Brookings 0.5 12
3 Gold Beach 0.5 12
6 Newport 0.7 19
4 North Bend 0.4 11
3 Port Orford 0.6 14
7 Seaside 1.2 30
7 Tillamook 1.2 30

Willamette Valley

August averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
3 Corvallis 0.4 10
3 Eugene 0.4 10
4 Portland 0.6 16
3 Salem 0.4 10

Cascade Mountains

Average amount of rain in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
4 Crater Lake Park 0.8 21
4 Detroit Lake Dam 0.9 23
4 Government Camp 1.1 28
2 Grants Pass 0.3 7
2 Howard Prairie Lake Dam 0.4 10
2 Klamath Falls 0.3 7
2 Lakeview 0.2 5
2 Medford 0.3 8
2 Roseburg 0.3 8
4 Three Lynx 0.7 18
3 Toketee Falls 0.7 18
3 Wickiup Reservoir Dam 0.6 15

Central Oregon

Precipitation totals for August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
2 Bend 0.4 9
2 Hood River 0.2 6
2 Madras 0.3 6
2 The Dalles 0.2 5

Eastern Oregon

Total precipitation during August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
2 Heppner 0.3 7
3 La Grande 0.7 17
2 Lake Owyhee Dam 0.2 5
1 Ontario 0.1 3
2 Pendleton 0.3 8
3 Seneca 0.4 10
3 Summer Lake 0.4 11
Reference

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

Oregon Precipitation
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