It is a month of feasts: City Day on the 7th, Senhora da Graça on the 15th, the Cultural Week and the Folklore Meeting, and at the end of the month the Grape Harvest Festival celebrates the wine that grows in the sand.
🌡️ The weather in August
- Mean temperature
- 23.1 °C
- Mean daily high
- 25.7 °C
- Mean daily low
- 20.5 °C
- Rain in the month
- 4.4 mm
- Days with rain (≥ 1 mm)
- 1.4
- Days reaching 25 °C
- 24.4
- Nights staying above 20 °C
- 22.8
Climate normals 1991-2020, measured at Porto Santo airport (78 m): thirty-year averages, not a forecast.
🌊 The sea
- Mean water temperature
- 23 °C
Monthly mean of ten years of measurements, not today’s temperature.
☀️ Daylight
- Sunrise
- 07:28
- Sunset
- 20:53
- Length of day
- 13 h 25 min
Computed for the island on 15 August, in local time.
For today’s weather and the days ahead, see the live weather. Porto Santo weather today →
📅 What’s on in August
Dates are those of the latest published edition.
- 1Jul🎵 Music⭐ Featured🔁 Every year
🎵 Summer Concerts — Beach
📍 Praia de Porto Santo · 1 July – 31 August 2026 · Free
- 1Jul🎵 Music⭐ Featured🔁 Every year
🎤 Summer entertainment
📍 Vila Baleira — Praça do Barqueiro · 1 July – 31 August 2026 · Free
- 7Aug🎭 Culture⭐ Featured🔁 Every year
🎂 City Day
📍 Vila Baleira · 7 August 2026 · Free
- 14Aug🎭 Culture⭐ Featured🔁 Every year
🎭 Porto Santo Cultural Week
📍 Vila Baleira — various venues · 14 – 22 August 2026 · Free / Paid depending on event
- 15Aug⛪ Tradition🔁 Every year
⛪ Festa de Nossa Senhora da Graça
📍 Vila Baleira · 15 August 2026 · Free
- 22Aug🎭 Culture🔁 Every year
🪗 Folklore gathering
📍 Vila Baleira — Praça do Barqueiro · 22 August 2026 · Free
Every year, no fixed date
- Aug⛪ Tradition
Espírito Santo feast
🗓️ Late July or early August, at Campo de Baixo · 📍 Campo de Baixo — Espírito Santo chapel
The blessed-bread feast, around the Espírito Santo chapel and its Flemish paintings.
- Aug⛪ Tradition
Nossa Senhora da Piedade feast
🗓️ Last weekend of August · 📍 Vila Baleira — Nossa Senhora da Piedade church
The feast of the island's patron saint, the most important of the religious calendar after São João.
- Aug🍷 Food
Grape harvest feast
🗓️ End of August · 📍 Vila Baleira — town centre
A public wine press and tastings of Porto Santo wine, from the Listrão and Caracol grapes grown on sand.
- Aug🌙 Nightlife
White Night
🗓️ In August, during the summer feasts · 📍 Vila Baleira — Praça do Barqueiro
A white-themed night on the Praça do Barqueiro, born of the winning proposal of the island's first youth participatory budget.