Climate averages 1991–2020

Barnsley 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.

Average high 6.8°C Daytime mean, February

Average low 1.3°C Night-time mean, February

Rainfall 56 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

February is a cold month in Barnsley: daytime highs average 6.8°C and nights cool to about 1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 56 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 9 h 46 min on an average February day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Wakefield (15 km away). In February its highs average 7.2°C, about as warm as Barnsley, with 54 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Barnsley ranks joint 123rd of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 98th of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Barnsley is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From February to March, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 9.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 56 mm to 57 mm.

The annual picture

February in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Barnsley climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Barnsley, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	6.1°C1.5°C	1.5°C	62	12.9	8.18 h
February, selected	6.8°C1.3°C	1.3°C	56	11.7	9.810 h
March	9.0°C2.3°C	2.3°C	57	12.2	11.812 h
April	11.7°C3.9°C	3.9°C	63	12.4	14.014 h
May	14.7°C6.8°C	6.8°C	63	12.2	15.916 h
June	17.3°C9.8°C	9.8°C	78	12.8	16.917 h
July	19.4°C12.0°C	12.0°C	75	13.3	16.516 h
August	19.1°C11.9°C	11.9°C	79	13.0	14.815 h
September	16.5°C9.8°C	9.8°C	63	10.4	12.813 h
October	12.8°C7.1°C	7.1°C	68	12.7	10.611 h
November	8.9°C4.1°C	4.1°C	68	12.9	8.79 h
December	6.4°C1.9°C	1.9°C	70	13.1	7.68 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

Distance from Barnsley

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Barnsley) is explained once on the Barnsley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Sheffield lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.