Climate averages 1991–2020
Bilbao weather
in February.
A cool, wet month: the 11th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Bilbao: daytime highs average 12.1°C and nights cool to about 6.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes February a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 29 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Barakaldo (6 km away). In February its highs average 12.2°C, about as warm as Bilbao, with 101 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Bilbao ranks joint 63rd of 93 for the warmest February highs and joint 85th of 93 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 93 cities is 13.6°C; Bilbao is 1.5°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 14.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 101 mm to 98 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
Bilbao climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.9°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 112 | 14.8 | 9.49 h |
| February, selected | 12.1°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 101 | 13.8 | 10.510 h |
| March | 14.0°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 98 | 13.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 97 | 15.2 | 13.413 h |
| May | 17.8°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 84 | 14.2 | 14.715 h |
| June | 20.3°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 69 | 11.4 | 15.315 h |
| July | 22.3°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 60 | 10.4 | 15.015 h |
| August | 23.2°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 55 | 10.3 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.5°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 65 | 11.8 | 12.513 h |
| October | 19.1°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 97 | 13.9 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.8°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 135 | 15.6 | 9.810 h |
| December | 12.6°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 105 | 14.4 | 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
- Barakaldo in FebruarySpain · 6 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 6.7°C · 101 mm rain
- Gasteiz / Vitoria in FebruarySpain · 50 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.4°C · 67 mm rain
- Santander in FebruarySpain · 75 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 5.8°C · 104 mm rain
- Donostia / San Sebastián in FebruarySpain · 77 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 6.3°C · 123 mm rain
- Logroño in FebruarySpain · 97 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.1°C · 48 mm rain
- Pamplona in FebruarySpain · 115 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 1.6°C · 60 mm rain
- Burgos in FebruarySpain · 120 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 0.2°C · 44 mm rain
- Palencia in FebruarySpain · 191 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 32 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 Bilbao) is explained once on the Bilbao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Barakaldo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.