Average Rainfall for Kansas in August

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August at cities, towns and lakes in Kansas.

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: Eastern, Central and Western Kansas.

Eastern Kansas

Average monthly precipitation in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
7 Chanute 4.5 113
6 Fort Scott 4.0 101
7 Independence 4.5 114
7 John Redmond Lake 4.1 103
8 Lawrence 4.6 118
7 Leavenworth 5.3 135
8 Olathe 4.5 113
10 Perry Lake 4.6 117
9 Pomona Lake 4.1 103
9 Topeka 4.6 116

Central Kansas

August averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
9 Concordia 3.5 89
8 Great Bend 3.7 94
8 Hutchinson 3.6 90
9 Lovewell Reservoir Dam 3.5 89
11 Manhattan 4.4 112
8 Marion Lake 4.0 101
9 Milford Lake 4.2 106
8 Salina 3.7 94
7 Tallgrass Prairie Preserve 3.8 96
9 Tuttle Creek Lake 4.2 107
8 Wichita 4.3 109
8 Wilson Lake 3.9 99

Western Kansas

Average amount of rain in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Colby 3.0 77
9 Dodge City 3.0 76
7 Elkhart 3.0 75
8 Garden City 2.8 71
9 Goodland 3.1 78
9 Keith Sebelius Reservoir 3.6 92
7 Liberal 2.7 69
7 Webster Reservoir Dam 3.5 90
Reference

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

Kansas Precipitation
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