Things to do in NYC in August 2021 depend on the progress of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It’s not a normal August.
August weather is late summer in New York City. Average temperatures range from 68° to 83°F so it is hot. Humidity rises during the day and breaks into afternoon thunderstorms coming up from the Caribbean.
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Categories of Things to Do in NYC in August 2021
These are the big Latin culture events in New York City in August.
AUGUST HOLIDAYS
There aren’t any holidays in August, but the last two weeks are summer holiday time in the U.S. In northern Catholic countries, summer holidays begin after the Assumption of Mary on August 15.
AUGUST INDEPENDENCE DAYS & NATIONAL CELEBRATIONS
- Bolivian Independence Day 🇧🇴 August 6
- Battle of Boyacá 🇨🇴 August 7
- Ecuadorian Independence Day 🇪🇨 August 10
- India Independence Day 🇮🇳 August 15, 1947
- Dominican Restoration Day 🇩🇴 August 16
- Uruguayan Independence Day 🇺🇾 August 25
AUGUST FESTIVALS
- Pachamama 😇 August 1
- Assumption of Mary 😇 August 15
- Queenship of Mary 😇 August 22
AUGUST PARADES
- Ecuadorian Parade 🇪🇨🥁 TBD
- National Dominican Day Parade 🇩🇴🥁 (Second Sunday) August 8, 2021 TBD
AUGUST STREET FAIRS
- Ecuadorian Festival 🇪🇨🎪 TBD
- Harlem Week TBD 🇺🇸🎪 (2020: August 16-23)
AUGUST ART
New York City’s art world is on summer schedule.
AUGUST DANCE
- 40th Battery Dance Festival 💃🏽🎪TBD
AUGUST DANCING
- Orchard Beach Salsa 💃🏽🕺🏽TBD
- Central Park Tango 💃🏽🕺🏽TBD (June – September)
- VolvoTango 💃🏽🕺🏽TBD
- New York International Salsa Congress 💃🏽🕺🏽 September 2-6, 2021
AUGUST FILM
- New York Latino Film Festival 🎞🎪 TBD
- MTV Video Music Awards 🎶🏆 TBD (2020: August 30)
AUGUST FOOD
- NYC Restaurant Week 🍽 TBD
AUGUST MUSIC
- SummerStage Anywhere
- Global Music Month TBD (2020: August 29 – October 1)
- Brazil SummerFest TBD
- Afropunk TBD
- Lincoln Center Out of Doors TBD
- Charlie Parker Jazz Festival TBD
AUGUST SPORTS
- US Open Grand Slam 🎾 August 30 – September 12, 2021
- New York Mets ⚾️ baseball, April 1 – October 3, 2021
- New York Yankees ⚾️ baseball, April 1 – October 3, 2021
- NYCFC ⚽️ soccer TBD (early March to October, playoffs through December)
- NY Red Bulls ⚽️ soccer TBD (early March to October, playoffs through December)
- Sky Blue FC ⚽️ women’s soccer TBD (April to October)
AUGUST THEATRE
- Puppet Fringe 🎭 TBD
- NYC Broadway Week 🎭 TBD
- Shakespeare in the Park 🎭 TBD
AUGUST NATIONAL DAYS
- International Beer Day 🍺 (First Friday) August 7
- NYPD National Night Out 👮🏽♀️ TBD
- National Rum Day 🥃 August 16
- International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition ⛓ August 23
AUGUST BIRTHDAYS
- Dolores del Río 🇲🇽 first Latin Hollywood star, August 3, 1905
- Louis Armstrong 🇺🇸 jazz legend, August 4, 1901
- Caetano Veloso 🇧🇷 rock star, August, 7, 1942
- Carlos Vives 🇨🇴 vallenato star, August, 7, 1961
- Emiliano Zapata 🇲🇽 revolutionary hero, August 8, 1879
- Juanes 🇨🇴 pop star, August 9, 1972
- Cantinflas 🇲🇽 comic actor, August 12, 1911
- Roberto Clemente 🇵🇷 baseball star and humanitarian, August 18, 1934
- Gilberto Santa Rosa 🇵🇷 salsa star, August 21, 1962
- Graciela Grillo 🇨🇺 singer, August 23, 1915
- Leonard Bernstein 🇺🇸, legendary classical and Broadway composer, August 25, 1918
- Thalia 🇲🇽 pop star, August 26, 1971
- Rufino Tamayo 🇲🇽 surrealist painter, August 26, 1899
- Arsenio Rodríguez 🇨🇺 son montuno composer, August 31, 1911