Average Rainfall for Texas in August

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

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month.

There's 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: North Central Texas, South Central Texas, East Texas, Gulf Coast and West Texas.

North Central Texas

Average monthly precipitation in August

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
5	Athens	2.6	67
6	College Station	3.1	79
5	Dallas	2.2	56
6	Denton	2.4	62
5	Fort Worth	2.6	65
4	Killeen	1.6	42
5	McKinney	1.7	44
5	Sherman	2.9	73
5	Waco	2.1	52
6	Wichita Falls	2.5	64

South Central Texas

August averages for total rainfall

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
4	Alice	2.6	67
5	Austin	2.7	70
4	Choke Canyon Lake Dam	1.7	43
4	Falcon Lake Dam	1.6	41
5	Fredericksburg	2.4	61
5	Kingsville	2.8	71
5	Laredo	1.6	40
5	Midland	1.7	44
5	New Braunfels	2.4	60
5	San Antonio	2.2	55

East Texas

Average amount of rain in August

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
6	Lake Fork	2.7	69
6	Longview	2.8	72
7	Lufkin	3.4	86
9	Sam Rayburn Lake Dam	5.0	126
7	Texarkana	2.8	70
8	Toledo Bend Reservoir Dam	3.4	87
7	Tyler	2.9	74

Gulf Coast

Precipitation totals for August

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
6	Aransas Wildlife Refuge	3.4	87
10	Beaumont	7.2	183
6	Brownsville	2.2	55
6	Corpus Christi	2.8	70
8	Galveston	4.7	120
10	Houston	5.4	138
4	McAllen	1.5	37
8	Victoria	3.1	79

West Texas

Total precipitation during August

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
6	Abilene	2.5	64
8	Amarillo	2.9	73
5	Del Rio	2.8	70
8	El Paso	1.7	42
10	Guadalupe Mountains Park	3.1	79
5	Lajitas, Big Bend Park	1.2	31
6	Lubbock	1.7	44
4	Odessa	1.6	41
6	San Angelo	2.5	64