Average August Temperatures for Virginia

Average temperatures for August at cities and other locations throughout Virginia are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

Virginia's Mountains

Average August temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
84	61	Abingdon	29	16
81	60	Blacksburg	27	15
78	56	Burkes Garden	25	13
81	60	Galax	27	15
84	62	Harrisonburg	29	17
80	59	Hot Springs	27	15
81	64	Mount Weather	27	18
85	62	Pennington Gap	29	16
87	66	Roanoke	30	19
83	62	Staunton	28	17
84	64	Winchester	29	18
80	60	Wise	27	15

Piedmont Virginia

Average daily temperatures in August
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
88	71	Arlington	31	22
86	66	Charlottesville	30	19
89	66	Danville	32	19
87	66	Fredericksburg	30	19
90	69	John H Kerr Dam	32	20
85	64	Lynchburg	30	18
86	63	Martinsville	30	17
87	67	Petersburg	31	20
86	64	Philpott Lake Dam	30	18
88	68	Richmond	31	20

Coastal Virginia

August temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
83	69	Cape Charles	29	21
87	68	Newport News	30	20
87	72	Norfolk	31	22
83	68	North River	28	20
86	67	Painter	30	20
85	69	Suffolk	30	20
84	69	Wallops Island	29	20
87	69	Williamsburg	30	20

Average Temperatures for Virginia in August

Virginia's Mountains

Piedmont Virginia

Coastal Virginia

Reference

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