August Sunshine Averages for Cities in Europe

The tables below give August averages for the number of hours of sunshine at major cities throughout Europe.

The cities range from Amsterdam to Zurich and from Reykjavík to İstanbul. They are listed alphabetically and you can jump ahead to the section for Amsterdam to Kazan, Lille to Pristina and Reykjavík to Zurich.

Included in this list are Europe's national capitals plus cities with a metropolitan population of over one million people.

The month's totals are averages of historical weather data collected over a long period, in most cases 30 years.

Total August sunshine

City	Hours
Amsterdam, Netherlands	197
Andorra la Vella, Andorra	207
Athens, Greece	340
Barcelona, Spain	282
Belgrade, Serbia	274
Berlin, Germany	210
Birmingham, United Kingdom	168
Brussels, Belgium	190
Bucharest, Romania	281
Budapest, Hungary	254
Chisinau, Moldova	295
Cologne, Germany	184
Copenhagen, Denmark	241
Dublin, Ireland	158
Glasgow, United Kingdom	142
Hamburg, Germany	207
Helsinki, Finland	219
İstanbul, Turkey	267
Kazan, Russia	254

Average amount of sun in August

City	Hours
Lille, France	200
Lisbon, Portugal	343
Ljubljana, Slovenia	230
London, United Kingdom	186
Luxembourg, Luxembourg	208
Lyon, France	253
Madrid, Spain	335
Manchester, United Kingdom	166
Marseille, France	327
Milan, Italy	251
Minsk, Belarus	237
Monaco, Monaco	316
Moscow, Russia	235
Munich, Germany	213
Naples, Italy	295
Nice, France	316
Nizhny & Novgorod, Russia	220
Odessa, Ukraine	302
Oslo, Norway	216
Paris, France	212
Podgorica, Montenegro	314
Prague, Czech Republic	212
Pristina, Kosovo	290

Average August sun

City	Hours
Reykjavík, Iceland	155
Riga, Latvia	230
Rostov-on-Don, Russia	293
Rotterdam, Netherlands	197
Saint Petersburg, Russia	213
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	238
Skopje, Macedonia	305
Sofia, Bulgaria	272
Stockholm, Sweden	221
Tallinn, Estonia	240
Turin, Italy	223
Vaduz, Liechtenstein	177
Valletta, Malta	338
Vienna, Austria	251
Vilnius, Lithuania	217
Zagreb, Croatia	257
Zurich, Switzerland	208