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Typical August weather

Boise

Idaho · August

Relentlessly dry, sometimes hazy, hot until well past dinner.

91° days
61° nights

rain is rare · 14 hours of daylight

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What August feels like

Smoke from fires elsewhere in the West dulls the Foothills for a week or two most summers; when the air is clear you can see a very long way from the ridge. The Western Idaho Fair lands at the end of the month, the students come back, and the average age of downtown drops overnight.

Rain is genuinely rare — most years, August stays dry start to finish. The air runs dry — whatever the thermometer says, it wears easy. about 20 afternoons top 90°.

The numbers

Typical high91°
Typical low61°
Days with real rain0
Total rain0.2 in
Humiditydry air
Sunrise / sunset (mid-month)6:49 am / 8:48 pm

How August compares

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