Matías Romero Avendaño weather in August

In August, Matías Romero Avendaño sees average daytime highs of 30°C and overnight lows near 23°C, with 231 mm of rain across 26.4 wet days and about 12.6 hours of daylight. It is the 5th-warmest and 2nd-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 30°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 5% of the time in August, and the air most often feels oppressive.

Daylight stretches from about 12 h 48 min at the start of August to 12 h 18 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, August is Matías Romero Avendaño's 11th-clearest and 11th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Matías Romero Avendaño's year-round climate.

Daytime high
30°
5th warmest
Overnight low
23°
10th coldest
Rainfall
231 mm
26.4 wet days
Daylight
12 h 36 min
6:07 AM – 6:41 PM
Cloud cover
79%
11th clearest
Wind
12 km/h
11th windiest
Solar energy
5.14 kWh/m²
Travel score
3.0
out of 10

Matías Romero Avendaño is municipal seat of Matías Romero, State of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Density
13/km²
people per km²

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Temperature in August

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 30°C through the month.

A typical August day in Matías Romero Avendaño reaches about 30°C in the afternoon and slips back to 23°C overnight — a 8°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 28°C and 32°C. Set against its neighbours, August runs on par with July and on par with September.

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How August really feels in Matías Romero Avendaño

Once humidity and wind are folded in, August averages 31 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
31
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in August is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Matías Romero Avendaño weather by month

How August compares with the rest of the year at a glance. August is the 5th-warmest and 2nd-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan25° / 18°4710.911.16.7
Feb27° / 19°347.211.46.7
Mar30° / 20°286.411.95.6
Apr33° / 22°255.412.44.2
May33° / 23°6210.512.83.3
Jun32° / 23°19020.7132.9
Jul30° / 23°21125.312.93.0
Aug30° / 23°23126.412.63.0
Sep30° / 23°23923.712.13.3
Oct28° / 22°16819.311.64.5
Nov27° / 20°8714.411.25.8
Dec25° / 19°4710.8116.5

Cloud cover in August

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 5% of the time in August.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 14% of August, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 81%.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
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Chance of precipitation in August

Any precipitation

Matías Romero Avendaño gets around 231 mm of rain over 26.4 wet days in August. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 85% and peaks near 86% on the wettest days.

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Humidity in August

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of August feels oppressive — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, August lands in the oppressive band about 94% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 100% of them.

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Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
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Wind in August

Winds average 12 km/h in August.

Across August, daily wind ranges from about 11 km/h on the calmest days to 12 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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Sunrise & sunset in August

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Daylight runs from about 12 h 48 min at the start of August to 12 h 18 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 30 minutes over August. Sunrise moves from 6:03 AM to 6:10 AM, and sunset from 6:49 PM to 6:31 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
112.86:036:49
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Solar energy in August

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in August, about 5.14 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 3.65 kWh/m² to a high of 6.42 kWh/m² in April across the year — August's 5.14 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Planning a trip in August

Hazard calendar for Matías Romero Avendaño

In seasonPeak

In August, Matías Romero Avendaño sits inside its monsoon season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

Matías Romero Avendaño's monsoon runs June–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Monsoon
Jan
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Mar
Apr
May
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Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
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Is August a good time to visit Matías Romero Avendaño?

Our two travel scores rate August for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

3.0
Sightseeing
10th-best month of the year
4.2
Beach & pool
12th-best month of the year

August is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Matías Romero Avendaño.

What to pack for Matías Romero Avendaño in August

From August's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In August, Matías Romero Avendaño sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 26 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Matías Romero Avendaño in August

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in August peaks around 13 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Matías Romero Avendaño peaks around August 16 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 8 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highAug 16UV 13Dec 18UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Air quality in Matías Romero Avendaño in August

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where August falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Matías Romero Avendaño is worst in May — around 53 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 5.2× the cleanest month (January, 10 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModeratePoorModerateGoodMay 1650 µg/m³Jan 1510 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb11Good
Mar16Moderate
Apr27Moderate
May53Poor
Jun26Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec11Good
Location & terrain

Where is Matías Romero Avendaño?

Matías Romero Avendaño sits at 16.9°N, 95.0°W, 186 m above sea level, in Mexico. The nearest listed city is Ixtepec, 36 km away.

Topography around Matías Romero Avendaño

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Matías Romero Avendaño.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Matías Romero Avendaño has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 92 m around an average of 205 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,088 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,304 m.

The land around Matías Romero Avendaño is covered by trees (46%) and grassland (38%) within 3 km, trees (62%) and grassland (36%) within 16 km, and trees (61%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
92 m
16 km
1,088 m
80 km
2,304 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
August weather nearby: Ixtepec 36 km · Heroica Ciudad de Juchitán de Zaragoza 49 km · Santo Domingo Tehuantepec 65 km · Salina Cruz 80 km · Acayucan 120 km · Jáltipan de Morelos 126 km · Cosoleacaque 132 km · Minatitlán 135 km

Mexico travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 / 127 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 54% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$13,889
2025
Happiness
7.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
43%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
24.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.8
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 440
Religion
Catholic 78%no religion 11%other Evangelical Churches 8%Jehovah Witness 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Matías Romero Avendaño (16.8774°, -95.0382°, elevation 186 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).