Climate averages 1991–2020
Copenhagen weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Copenhagen: daytime highs average 3.3°C and nights cool to about -0.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 34 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Malmö (28 km away). In February its highs average 3.1°C, about as warm as Copenhagen, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Denmark, Copenhagen ranks 5th of 5 for the warmest February highs and 3rd of 5 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 5 cities is 3.7°C; Copenhagen is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 6.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 41 mm to 43 mm.
The annual picture
February in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Copenhagen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 50 | 11.7 | 7.78 h |
| February, selected | 3.3°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 41 | 9.5 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.0°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 43 | 10.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 41 | 9.3 | 14.114 h |
| May | 15.4°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 52 | 10.3 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 71 | 11.2 | 17.417 h |
| July | 20.9°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 72 | 12.0 | 16.917 h |
| August | 20.6°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 77 | 12.8 | 15.115 h |
| September | 16.7°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 59 | 10.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 60 | 11.7 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.2°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 50 | 11.0 | 8.48 h |
| December | 4.1°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 53 | 11.5 | 7.27 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
February in nearby cities
- Malmö in FebruarySweden · 28 kmHigh 3.1°C · Low -1.2°C · 40 mm rain
- Lund in FebruarySweden · 39 kmHigh 2.9°C · Low -1.9°C · 45 mm rain
- Helsingborg in FebruarySweden · 42 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -1.4°C · 45 mm rain
- Halmstad in FebruarySweden · 112 kmHigh 2.6°C · Low -2.0°C · 54 mm rain
- Odense in FebruaryDenmark · 140 kmHigh 4.0°C · Low -0.2°C · 38 mm rain
- Århus in FebruaryDenmark · 156 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.4°C · 40 mm rain
- Rostock in FebruaryGermany · 179 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -0.6°C · 41 mm rain
- Växjö in FebruarySweden · 192 kmHigh 1.2°C · Low -3.8°C · 42 mm precipitation
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Copenhagen) is explained once on the Copenhagen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.