Climate averages 1991–2020
Bournemouth weather
in February.
A cool, moderately wet month: one of the coolest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Bournemouth: daytime highs average 8.1°C and nights cool to about 4.1°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 59 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Poole (7 km away). In February its highs average 8.2°C, about as warm as Bournemouth, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Bournemouth ranks joint 5th of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 91st of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Bournemouth is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 9.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 54 mm to 49 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
Bournemouth climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 71 | 12.3 | 8.59 h |
| February, selected | 8.1°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 54 | 9.9 | 10.010 h |
| March | 9.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 49 | 9.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.4°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 53 | 10.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 15.5°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 51 | 9.7 | 15.515 h |
| June | 18.1°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 51 | 9.7 | 16.416 h |
| July | 20.1°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 47 | 9.3 | 16.016 h |
| August | 20.0°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 63 | 9.4 | 14.515 h |
| September | 17.9°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 54 | 9.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 82 | 11.9 | 10.811 h |
| November | 11.1°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 84 | 12.2 | 9.09 h |
| December | 8.7°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 78 | 11.8 | 8.18 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
- Poole in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 7 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 4.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Southampton in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 39 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low 3.2°C · 51 mm rain
- Portsmouth in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 56 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 3.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Bath in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 80 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 2.0°C · 53 mm rain
- Basingstoke in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 82 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 2.0°C · 48 mm rain
- Swindon in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 93 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 1.7°C · 48 mm rain
- Bristol in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 96 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low 2.4°C · 53 mm rain
- Reading in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 104 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 2.1°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 Bournemouth) is explained once on the Bournemouth year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Poole lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.