Climate averages 1991–2020
Pau weather
in February.
A cool, wet month: the 10th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Pau: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 1.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes February a wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 29 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pamplona (118 km away). In February its highs average 9.4°C, 0.9°C cooler than Pau, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Pau ranks 15th of 57 for the warmest February highs and 56th of 57 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 57 cities is 9.0°C; Pau is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 13.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 98 mm to 107 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
Pau climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.5°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 112 | 13.8 | 9.49 h |
| February, selected | 10.3°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 98 | 12.4 | 10.510 h |
| March | 13.5°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 107 | 13.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.4°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 145 | 16.4 | 13.413 h |
| May | 18.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 159 | 16.3 | 14.715 h |
| June | 22.1°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 128 | 14.0 | 15.315 h |
| July | 24.1°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 105 | 12.1 | 15.115 h |
| August | 24.5°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 104 | 12.5 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.5°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 98 | 11.9 | 12.513 h |
| October | 18.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 123 | 13.7 | 11.111 h |
| November | 12.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 138 | 14.2 | 9.810 h |
| December | 10.1°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 108 | 13.2 | 9.09 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
- Pamplona in FebruarySpain · 118 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 1.6°C · 60 mm rain
- Donostia / San Sebastián in FebruarySpain · 131 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 6.3°C · 123 mm rain
- Toulouse in FebruaryFrance · 149 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.8°C · 53 mm rain
- Bordeaux in FebruaryFrance · 171 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.2°C · 50 mm rain
- Andorra la Vella in FebruaryAndorra · 177 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -1.5°C · 54 mm rain
- Zaragoza in FebruarySpain · 189 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 3.4°C · 21 mm rain
- Logroño in FebruarySpain · 195 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.1°C · 48 mm rain
- Gasteiz / Vitoria in FebruarySpain · 195 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.4°C · 67 mm rain
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 Pau) is explained once on the Pau year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.