August
Sign in to savethumb|Depiction of harvesting in the August calendar page of the Queen Mary Psalter (fol. 78v), ca. 1310 thumb |In recent decades, the number of warm temperature records in August has outpaced cold temperature records over a growing portion of Earth's surface. thumb |Chart shows changes in global average temperature annually in August of each year
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August is the eighth month of the year, historically associated with harvest time as depicted in medieval calendar illustrations. In recent decades, August has experienced increasingly more warm temperature records than cold ones across much of Earth's surface, reflecting broader patterns of global temperature change.
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- Part of
- Swedish calendar
- Has part
- August 31
- Named after
- sickle
- Followed by
- September
- Follows
- July
- Image
- Breviarium Grimani - August.jpg
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30 sectionsContents
- Symbols
- Observances
- Non-Gregorian: {{CURRENTYEAR}} dates
- Month-long
- United States month-long
- Food months in the United States
- Moveable Gregorian
- Second to last Sunday in July and the following two weeks
- 1st Saturday
- 1st Sunday
- First full week of August
- 1st Monday
- 1st Tuesday
- 1st Friday
- 2nd Saturday
- Sunday on or closest to 9 August
- 2nd Sunday
- 2nd Monday
- 2nd Tuesday
- 3rd Saturday
- 3rd Sunday
- 3rd Monday
- 3rd Friday
- Last Thursday
- Last Sunday
- Last Monday
- Last Friday
- Fixed Gregorian
- References
- External links
thumb|Depiction of harvesting in the August calendar page of the Queen Mary Psalter (fol. 78v), ca. 1310 thumb |In recent decades, the number of warm temperature records in August has outpaced cold temperature records over a growing portion of Earth's surface. thumb |Chart shows changes in global average temperature annually in August of each year
August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days.