Climate averages 1991–2020
Dublin 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 Dublin: daytime highs average 8.2°C and nights cool to about 3.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 47 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tallaght (10 km away). In February its highs average 7.8°C, about as warm as Dublin, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Ireland, Dublin ranks 4th of 5 for the warmest February highs and joint 1st of 5 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 5 cities is 8.4°C; Dublin is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 9.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 59 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
Dublin climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.8°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 69 | 13.1 | 8.18 h |
| February, selected | 8.2°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 57 | 12.0 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.8°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 59 | 12.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.9°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 66 | 13.8 | 13.914 h |
| May | 14.7°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 66 | 13.6 | 15.816 h |
| June | 17.3°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 73 | 13.2 | 16.917 h |
| July | 18.9°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 76 | 14.8 | 16.416 h |
| August | 18.6°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 78 | 13.6 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.5°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 70 | 12.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.3°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 78 | 12.4 | 10.611 h |
| November | 10.0°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 85 | 13.2 | 8.79 h |
| December | 8.1°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 76 | 12.8 | 7.68 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
- Tallaght in FebruaryIreland · 10 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low 2.8°C · 57 mm rain
- Lisburn in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 133 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 3.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Belfast in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 142 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 3.8°C · 63 mm rain
- Douglas in FebruaryIsle of Man · 147 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 5.4°C · 76 mm rain
- Limerick in FebruaryIreland · 175 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 3.3°C · 80 mm rain
- Galway in FebruaryIreland · 186 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 3.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Derry in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 198 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 3.0°C · 76 mm rain
- Southport in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 217 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low 3.4°C · 88 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 Dublin) is explained once on the Dublin year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Tallaght lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.