Climate averages 1991–2020
Brighton weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: one of the coolest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Brighton: daytime highs average 7.7°C and nights cool to about 3.6°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 7th 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 Hove (2 km away). In February its highs average 7.8°C, about as warm as Brighton, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Brighton ranks joint 35th of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 112th of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Brighton is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 9.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 64 mm to 50 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
Brighton climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.7°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 90 | 14.1 | 8.58 h |
| February, selected | 7.7°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 64 | 11.2 | 10.010 h |
| March | 9.6°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 50 | 9.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 48 | 9.3 | 13.814 h |
| May | 14.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 46 | 8.5 | 15.515 h |
| June | 17.5°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 47 | 8.5 | 16.416 h |
| July | 19.6°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 48 | 8.8 | 16.016 h |
| August | 19.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 62 | 9.3 | 14.615 h |
| September | 17.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 10.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 108 | 13.9 | 10.811 h |
| November | 10.8°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 116 | 15.3 | 9.09 h |
| December | 8.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 103 | 14.1 | 8.08 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
- Hove in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 2 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low 3.6°C · 64 mm rain
- Worthing in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Eastbourne in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 31 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 4.5°C · 66 mm rain
- Crawley in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 51 mm rain
- Hastings, United Kingdom in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 51 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 3.6°C · 64 mm rain
- Guildford in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 55 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.1°C · 47 mm rain
- Purley in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 57 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 1.9°C · 50 mm rain
- Sutton in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 58 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 1.9°C · 48 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 Brighton) is explained once on the Brighton year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Hove lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.