Climate averages 1991–2020
Rotterdam weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 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 Rotterdam: daytime highs average 6.8°C and nights cool to about 1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 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 54 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Schiedam (6 km away). In February its highs average 6.8°C, about as warm as Rotterdam, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Rotterdam ranks joint 3rd of 44 for the warmest February highs and joint 4th of 44 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 44 cities is 6.5°C; Rotterdam is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 9.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 52 mm to 53 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
Rotterdam climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.9°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 62 | 12.2 | 8.38 h |
| February, selected | 6.8°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 52 | 10.9 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.8°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 53 | 11.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.6°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 48 | 10.9 | 13.914 h |
| May | 17.0°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 61 | 11.5 | 15.616 h |
| June | 19.6°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 64 | 11.0 | 16.617 h |
| July | 21.7°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 79 | 13.4 | 16.216 h |
| August | 21.6°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 79 | 13.0 | 14.715 h |
| September | 18.5°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 69 | 12.1 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.3°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 68 | 12.6 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.7°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 66 | 13.5 | 8.99 h |
| December | 6.4°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 71 | 13.5 | 7.98 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
- Schiedam in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 6 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.7°C · 52 mm rain
- Vlaardingen in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 9 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Delft in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 13 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 1.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Spijkenisse in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 13 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.6°C · 52 mm rain
- Zoetermeer in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 15 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 1.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Dordrecht in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 18 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Gouda in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 19 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 1.4°C · 54 mm rain
- The Hague in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 21 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 2.3°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 Rotterdam) is explained once on the Rotterdam year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Zoetermeer and Schiedam lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.