Average Sunshine in Texas for August

Number of Sunny Days

In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in Texas is the total days this month when the sky is mostly clear. This includes the days when cloud covers up to 30% of the sky during daylight hours.

Partly Sunny Days have cloud covering from 40% to 70% of the sky during the daytime.

Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover. All the numbers are annual averages, made from years of weather watching.

Days of sunshine in August
City Sunny
Days
Partly Sunny
Days
Total Days
With Sun
Abilene 14 10 24
Amarillo 14 10 24
Austin City 12 14 26
Brownsville 11 14 25
Corpus Christi 11 13 24
Dallas-Fort Worth 15 10 25
Del Rio 11 12 23
El Paso 14 12 26
Houston 6 17 23
Lubbock 15 10 25
Midland-Odessa 14 10 24
Port Arthur 7 15 22
San Angelo 15 10 25
San Antonio 10 15 25
Victoria 7 15 22
Waco 14 11 25
Wichita Falls 15 9 24

Amount of Sun

Here's another way to look at how much sunshine a city gets. The % Sun number measures the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Again, these amounts are monthly averages based on many years of weather observations.

Percent sunshine for August
City % Sun
Abilene 78
Amarillo 77
Austin City 74
Austin-Bergstrom Airport 74
Brownsville 76
Corpus Christi 76
Dallas-Fort Worth 73
El Paso 81
Galveston 71
Houston 68
Lubbock 76
Midland-Odessa 77
Port Arthur 63
San Antonio 74
Reference

National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.

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