Average Rainfall for Virginia in August
The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August at cities and other locations around Virginia.
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: Coastal Virginia in the east, Piedmont or central Virginia, and the Mountains, including the Shenandoah Valley in the northwest and the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia.
Virginia's Mountains
| Days | Place | Inches | Millimetres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Abingdon | 3.8 | 98 |
| 12 | Blacksburg | 3.6 | 91 |
| 14 | Burkes Garden | 4.0 | 102 |
| 11 | Galax | 4.4 | 113 |
| 12 | Harrisonburg | 3.8 | 97 |
| 11 | Hot Springs | 3.6 | 91 |
| 9 | Mount Weather | 3.6 | 92 |
| 11 | Pennington Gap | 4.0 | 100 |
| 10 | Roanoke | 3.4 | 86 |
| 12 | Staunton | 4.0 | 101 |
| 10 | Winchester | 3.2 | 82 |
| 13 | Wise | 4.1 | 105 |
Piedmont Virginia
| Days | Place | Inches | Millimetres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Arlington | 3.3 | 83 |
| 11 | Charlottesville | 4.0 | 102 |
| 9 | Danville | 4.1 | 103 |
| 10 | Fredericksburg | 3.0 | 76 |
| 9 | John H Kerr Dam | 3.8 | 97 |
| 10 | Lynchburg | 3.2 | 82 |
| 10 | Martinsville | 4.2 | 106 |
| 10 | Petersburg | 5.3 | 135 |
| 10 | Philpott Lake Dam | 4.5 | 114 |
| 9 | Richmond | 4.9 | 124 |
Coastal Virginia
| Days | Place | Inches | Millimetres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Cape Charles | 4.1 | 105 |
| 12 | Newport News | 5.4 | 136 |
| 10 | Norfolk | 5.9 | 149 |
| 9 | North River | 5.5 | 140 |
| 10 | Painter | 4.5 | 114 |
| 11 | Suffolk | 5.8 | 147 |
| 9 | Wallops Island | 4.3 | 110 |
| 11 | Williamsburg | 5.7 | 144 |
Reference
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.