Climate averages 1991–2020
Basel weather
in February.
A cold, 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 cold month in Basel: daytime highs average 6.9°C and nights cool to about -1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 73 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 10 h 13 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mulhouse (28 km away). In February its highs average 6.5°C, about as warm as Basel, with 66 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Basel ranks 1st of 8 for the warmest February highs and joint 2nd of 8 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 8 cities is 5.7°C; Basel is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 4.2°C to 11.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 73 mm to 83 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
Basel climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.4°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 80 | 13.5 | 8.99 h |
| February, selected | 6.9°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 73 | 11.7 | 10.210 h |
| March | 11.1°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 83 | 13.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.0°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 90 | 14.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 129 | 16.8 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.3°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 118 | 15.8 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.5°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 121 | 15.4 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.5°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 125 | 15.1 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.1°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 95 | 12.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 97 | 13.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.4°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 94 | 13.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 5.8°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 101 | 14.1 | 8.59 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
- Mulhouse in FebruaryFrance · 28 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -1.0°C · 66 mm rain
- Freiburg in FebruaryGermany · 53 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -1.1°C · 77 mm rain
- Bern in FebruarySwitzerland · 69 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -3.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Zürich in FebruarySwitzerland · 76 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low -1.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Luzern in FebruarySwitzerland · 79 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -1.2°C · 112 mm rain
- Winterthur in FebruarySwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low -2.0°C · 69 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in FebruaryGermany · 89 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -4.1°C · 75 mm rain
- Strasbourg in FebruaryFrance · 115 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -0.4°C · 64 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 Basel) is explained once on the Basel year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.