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Typical August weather

South Lake Tahoe

California · August

The month everyone actually gets in the lake.

80° days
41° nights

maybe one rainy day · 13½ hours of daylight

What to pack

What August feels like

August is when the swimming really happens — Pope Beach and Baldwin fill up and people stay in far longer than they did in June. It is also the smoke wild card: a fire anywhere upwind can flatten the view across to the west shore for days.

Real rain shows up maybe one day all month; the rest stay dry.

The numbers

Typical high80°
Typical low41°
Days with real rain1
Total rain0.4 in
Sunrise / sunset (mid-month)6:13 am / 7:54 pm

How August compares

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