Climate averages 1991–2020
Basildon weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 11th 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 Basildon: daytime highs average 7.6°C and nights cool to about 2.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 42 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 55 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Grays (14 km away). In February its highs average 7.9°C, about as warm as Basildon, with 43 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Basildon ranks joint 45th of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 9th of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Basildon is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 9.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 42 mm to 39 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
Basildon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 49 | 10.8 | 8.48 h |
| February, selected | 7.6°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 42 | 9.4 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.8°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 39 | 9.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.6°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 45 | 11.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 15.6°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 50 | 9.7 | 15.616 h |
| June | 18.7°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 52 | 9.5 | 16.617 h |
| July | 21.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 52 | 10.3 | 16.116 h |
| August | 20.9°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 58 | 9.9 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.2°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 45 | 8.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.4°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 56 | 10.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 10.3°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 57 | 10.6 | 8.99 h |
| December | 7.7°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 55 | 11.0 | 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
- Grays in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 14 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.6°C · 43 mm rain
- Southend-on-Sea in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 3.1°C · 55 mm rain
- Chelmsford in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 2.5°C · 41 mm rain
- Dagenham in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 20 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.6°C · 43 mm rain
- Gillingham in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 2.7°C · 42 mm rain
- Bexley in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low 2.5°C · 43 mm rain
- Barking in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.4°C · 44 mm rain
- Ilford in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.5°C · 44 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 Basildon) is explained once on the Basildon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Gillingham lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.