Climate averages 1991–2020
Alphen aan den Rijn weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Alphen aan den Rijn: daytime highs average 6.6°C and nights cool to about 1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 56 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 53 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Leiden (12 km away). In February its highs average 6.4°C, about as warm as Alphen aan den Rijn, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Alphen aan den Rijn ranks joint 17th of 44 for the warmest February highs and joint 25th of 44 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 44 cities is 6.5°C; Alphen aan den Rijn is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 9.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 56 mm to 55 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
Alphen aan den Rijn climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.9°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 69 | 13.3 | 8.38 h |
| February, selected | 6.6°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 56 | 11.1 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.6°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 55 | 11.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.3°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 49 | 10.7 | 13.914 h |
| May | 16.7°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 62 | 10.9 | 15.716 h |
| June | 19.3°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 66 | 11.7 | 16.717 h |
| July | 21.4°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 83 | 13.4 | 16.216 h |
| August | 21.3°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 90 | 13.3 | 14.715 h |
| September | 18.3°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 81 | 12.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.2°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 84 | 13.7 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.6°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 75 | 14.1 | 8.99 h |
| December | 6.4°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 79 | 14.0 | 7.88 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
- Leiden in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 12 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 2.1°C · 57 mm rain
- Gouda in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 13 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 1.4°C · 54 mm rain
- Zoetermeer in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 14 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 1.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Hoofddorp in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 19 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 2.1°C · 56 mm rain
- Amstelveen in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 24 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 1.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Delft in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 25 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 1.9°C · 52 mm rain
- The Hague in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 25 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 2.3°C · 52 mm rain
- Rotterdam in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 26 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.5°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 Alphen aan den Rijn) is explained once on the Alphen aan den Rijn year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Hoofddorp and Amstelveen lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.