Climate averages 1991–2020
Zaanstad weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 11th 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 Zaanstad: daytime highs average 6.2°C and nights cool to about 2.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 54 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 51 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zaandam (2 km away). In February its highs average 6.3°C, about as warm as Zaanstad, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Zaanstad ranks joint 33rd of 44 for the warmest February highs and joint 13th of 44 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 44 cities is 6.5°C; Zaanstad is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 8.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 54 mm to 52 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
Zaanstad climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.8°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 69 | 13.2 | 8.38 h |
| February, selected | 6.2°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 54 | 11.0 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.7°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 52 | 10.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.2°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 44 | 10.1 | 13.914 h |
| May | 15.4°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 58 | 10.4 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.0°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 63 | 11.3 | 16.717 h |
| July | 20.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 79 | 13.0 | 16.316 h |
| August | 20.4°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 90 | 13.3 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 84 | 12.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.9°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 88 | 14.1 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.6°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 77 | 14.8 | 8.89 h |
| December | 6.6°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 79 | 14.2 | 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
- Zaandam in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 2 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 2.0°C · 54 mm rain
- Amsterdam in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 10 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Purmerend in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 11 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low 1.7°C · 51 mm rain
- Haarlem in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 14 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 2.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Amstelveen in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 17 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 1.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Hoofddorp in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 19 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 2.1°C · 56 mm rain
- Alkmaar in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 20 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 2.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Almere Stad in FebruaryThe Netherlands · 29 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 1.3°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 Zaanstad) is explained once on the Zaanstad year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Haarlem and Zaandam lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.