Climate averages 1991–2020
Karlsruhe weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Karlsruhe: daytime highs average 6.8°C and nights cool to about -0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 07 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pforzheim (26 km away). In February its highs average 6.4°C, about as warm as Karlsruhe, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Karlsruhe ranks 1st of 120 for the warmest February highs and joint 76th of 120 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 120 cities is 5.5°C; Karlsruhe is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 10.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 68 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
Karlsruhe climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.2°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 68 | 12.6 | 8.79 h |
| February, selected | 6.8°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 61 | 11.1 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.9°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 68 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.5°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 52 | 10.8 | 13.714 h |
| May | 19.3°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 79 | 12.8 | 15.315 h |
| June | 22.8°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 67 | 12.2 | 16.116 h |
| July | 25.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 70 | 12.2 | 15.816 h |
| August | 25.1°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 62 | 11.1 | 14.414 h |
| September | 20.5°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 62 | 9.9 | 12.713 h |
| October | 15.3°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 66 | 11.3 | 10.811 h |
| November | 9.5°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 70 | 11.6 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 83 | 14.3 | 8.38 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
- Pforzheim in FebruaryGermany · 26 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low -0.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Heidelberg, Germany in FebruaryGermany · 49 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -0.2°C · 67 mm rain
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein in FebruaryGermany · 53 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -0.3°C · 51 mm rain
- Mannheim in FebruaryGermany · 54 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -0.3°C · 51 mm rain
- Ludwigsburg in FebruaryGermany · 59 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low -1.6°C · 61 mm rain
- Heilbronn in FebruaryGermany · 61 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low -0.7°C · 67 mm rain
- Stuttgart in FebruaryGermany · 62 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -1.4°C · 55 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in FebruaryGermany · 67 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low -0.1°C · 52 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 Karlsruhe) is explained once on the Karlsruhe year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.