Climate averages 1991–2020
Zürich 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 Zürich: daytime highs average 6.1°C and nights cool to about -1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 85 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 14 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Winterthur (20 km away). In February its highs average 5.8°C, about as warm as Zürich, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Zürich ranks joint 3rd of 8 for the warmest February highs and 5th of 8 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 8 cities is 5.7°C; Zürich is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 10.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 85 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
Zürich climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 92 | 12.9 | 8.99 h |
| February, selected | 6.1°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 85 | 11.9 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.3°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 98 | 14.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.1°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 106 | 13.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.9°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 144 | 16.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 21.4°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 143 | 15.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 146 | 15.4 | 15.516 h |
| August | 23.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 147 | 14.4 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 123 | 12.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.6°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 103 | 12.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 106 | 13.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 5.2°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 106 | 14.0 | 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
- Winterthur in FebruarySwitzerland · 20 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low -2.0°C · 69 mm rain
- Luzern in FebruarySwitzerland · 40 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -1.2°C · 112 mm rain
- Konstanz in FebruaryGermany · 57 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -1.2°C · 63 mm rain
- Sankt Gallen in FebruarySwitzerland · 62 kmHigh 3.9°C · Low -4.7°C · 80 mm rain
- Basel in FebruarySwitzerland · 76 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -1.5°C · 73 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in FebruaryGermany · 77 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -4.1°C · 75 mm rain
- Vaduz in FebruaryLiechtenstein · 77 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -3.5°C · 105 mm rain
- Freiburg in FebruaryGermany · 87 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -1.1°C · 77 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 Zürich) is explained once on the Zürich year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.