Climate averages 1991–2020
Amsterdam weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Amsterdam: daytime highs average 6.3°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 53 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 52 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Amstelveen (8 km away). In February its highs average 6.4°C, about as warm as Amsterdam, with 56 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Amsterdam ranks joint 30th of 44 for the warmest February highs and joint 11th of 44 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 44 cities is 6.5°C; Amsterdam is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 9.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 53 mm to 54 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
Amsterdam climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 63 | 12.4 | 8.38 h |
| February, selected | 6.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 53 | 10.5 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.0°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 54 | 11.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.7°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 50 | 11.1 | 13.914 h |
| May | 16.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 62 | 11.4 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.6°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 67 | 11.7 | 16.717 h |
| July | 20.8°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 82 | 13.4 | 16.316 h |
| August | 20.8°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 81 | 12.9 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.9°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 69 | 11.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 66 | 12.4 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.4°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 61 | 12.4 | 8.89 h |
| December | 6.3°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 69 | 12.9 | 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
- Amstelveen in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 8 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 1.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Zaandam in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 8 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 2.0°C · 54 mm rain
- Zaanstad in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 10 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low 2.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Purmerend in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 15 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low 1.7°C · 51 mm rain
- Hoofddorp in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 16 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 2.1°C · 56 mm rain
- Haarlem in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 17 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 2.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Almere Stad in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 22 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 1.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Hilversum in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 26 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 1.2°C · 54 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 Amsterdam) is explained once on the Amsterdam year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.