Average Rainfall for Tennessee in August

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

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: Eastern, Middle and Western Tennessee.

Eastern Tennessee

Average monthly precipitation in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
10 Athens 4.0 102
11 Bristol 3.8 96
9 Chattanooga 3.7 93
10 Cleveland 3.8 98
10 Crossville 3.6 92
11 Dayton 3.9 99
14 Gatlinburg 4.4 112
11 Greeneville 4.4 113
10 Kingsport 3.8 97
10 Knoxville 3.6 92
10 Lookout Mountain 4.0 101
10 Morristown 3.0 75
10 Mountain City 4.2 106
10 Oak Ridge 3.7 94
9 Oneida 4.5 115
9 Sevierville 3.4 86

Middle Tennessee

August averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
6 Cheatham Lake Dam 3.3 83
9 Clarksville 3.7 94
10 Columbia 4.1 104
10 Cookeville 3.9 100
7 Dover 3.8 96
11 Monteagle 4.8 121
10 Murfreesboro 3.6 92
9 Nashville 3.8 96
9 Shelbyville 4.2 108
9 Tullahoma 4.1 104

Western Tennessee

Average amount of rain in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
6 Dyersburg 3.3 83
8 Jackson 3.6 91
8 Martin 3.5 88
8 Memphis 3.4 86
9 Savannah 4.1 104
Reference

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

Tennessee Precipitation
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