Climate averages 1991–2020
Bochum weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Bochum: daytime highs average 6.0°C and nights cool to about 0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 56 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gelsenkirchen (9 km away). In February its highs average 6.4°C, about as warm as Bochum, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Bochum ranks joint 42nd of 120 for the warmest February highs and joint 105th of 120 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 120 cities is 5.5°C; Bochum is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 9.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 71 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
Bochum climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 83 | 14.4 | 8.48 h |
| February, selected | 6.0°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 69 | 12.5 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 71 | 13.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.0°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 55 | 11.5 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.7°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 67 | 12.4 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.6°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 74 | 12.6 | 16.517 h |
| July | 22.7°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 89 | 14.0 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.4°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 85 | 13.3 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.7°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 74 | 11.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.9°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 74 | 12.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.8°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 75 | 13.7 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.4°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 89 | 15.0 | 7.98 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
- Gelsenkirchen in FebruaryGermany · 9 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 0.6°C · 64 mm rain
- Witten in FebruaryGermany · 10 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 0.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Castrop-Rauxel in FebruaryGermany · 11 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 69 mm rain
- Essen in FebruaryGermany · 14 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low 0.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Recklinghausen in FebruaryGermany · 15 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 69 mm rain
- Dortmund in FebruaryGermany · 18 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 0.2°C · 68 mm rain
- Gladbeck in FebruaryGermany · 19 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 0.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Velbert in FebruaryGermany · 20 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -0.4°C · 80 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 Bochum) is explained once on the Bochum year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Recklinghausen, Witten and Castrop-Rauxel lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.