Average Temperatures for Virginia in August

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
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

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