Climate averages 1991–2020
Villeurbanne weather
in February.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Villeurbanne: daytime highs average 8.5°C and nights cool to about 0.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 20 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lyon (3 km away). In February its highs average 8.8°C, about as warm as Villeurbanne, with 56 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Villeurbanne ranks joint 26th of 57 for the warmest February highs and joint 48th of 57 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 57 cities is 9.0°C; Villeurbanne is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 12.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 63 mm to 65 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
Villeurbanne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.9°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 76 | 12.4 | 9.19 h |
| February, selected | 8.5°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 63 | 10.3 | 10.310 h |
| March | 12.6°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 65 | 10.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.1°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 81 | 11.2 | 13.513 h |
| May | 19.9°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 88 | 12.1 | 14.915 h |
| June | 24.0°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 80 | 11.3 | 15.616 h |
| July | 26.4°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 75 | 9.5 | 15.315 h |
| August | 26.4°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 75 | 9.4 | 14.114 h |
| September | 21.8°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 93 | 9.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 17.0°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 100 | 11.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.9°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 106 | 12.4 | 9.510 h |
| December | 7.4°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 83 | 12.3 | 8.89 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
- Lyon in FebruaryFrance · 3 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 0.8°C · 56 mm rain
- Saint-Étienne in FebruaryFrance · 53 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -0.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Grenoble in FebruaryFrance · 92 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 0.1°C · 102 mm rain
- Geneva in FebruarySwitzerland · 109 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -0.6°C · 100 mm rain
- Clermont-Ferrand in FebruaryFrance · 139 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 0.0°C · 51 mm rain
- Lausanne in FebruarySwitzerland · 159 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 97 mm rain
- Dijon in FebruaryFrance · 172 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 0.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Besançon in FebruaryFrance · 186 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low 0.1°C · 96 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 Villeurbanne) is explained once on the Villeurbanne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.