Climate averages 1991–2020
Glasgow weather
in February.
A cold, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Glasgow: daytime highs average 6.4°C and nights cool to about 1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes February a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 33 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Paisley (12 km away). In February its highs average 6.6°C, about as warm as Glasgow, with 104 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Glasgow ranks joint 137th of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 141st of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Glasgow is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 8.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 98 mm to 87 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
Glasgow climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.8°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 116 | 16.7 | 7.78 h |
| February, selected | 6.4°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 98 | 14.5 | 9.510 h |
| March | 8.1°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 87 | 14.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.7°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 74 | 13.8 | 14.114 h |
| May | 13.7°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 79 | 13.6 | 16.316 h |
| June | 16.0°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 86 | 14.2 | 17.517 h |
| July | 17.5°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 92 | 15.5 | 16.917 h |
| August | 17.2°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 101 | 15.7 | 15.115 h |
| September | 15.1°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 83 | 13.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 110 | 15.5 | 10.510 h |
| November | 8.3°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 105 | 15.9 | 8.38 h |
| December | 5.9°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 115 | 15.8 | 7.17 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
- Paisley in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 1.7°C · 104 mm rain
- East Kilbride in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 0.7°C · 98 mm rain
- Edinburgh in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 67 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 1.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Dundee, United Kingdom in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 104 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.9°C · 59 mm rain
- Carlisle in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 136 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 1.3°C · 82 mm rain
- Belfast in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 176 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 3.8°C · 63 mm rain
- Lisburn in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 187 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 3.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Douglas in FebruaryIsle of Man · 191 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 5.4°C · 76 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 Glasgow) is explained once on the Glasgow year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
East Kilbride lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.