Climate averages 1991–2020
Hartlepool weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Hartlepool: daytime highs average 7.1°C and nights cool to about 2.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 50 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 39 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Middlesbrough (12 km away). In February its highs average 7.1°C, about as warm as Hartlepool, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Hartlepool ranks joint 105th of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 79th of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Hartlepool is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 8.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 50 mm to 45 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
Hartlepool climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.6°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 58 | 13.2 | 7.98 h |
| February, selected | 7.1°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 50 | 11.8 | 9.710 h |
| March | 8.8°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 45 | 10.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.9°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 51 | 10.5 | 14.014 h |
| May | 13.6°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 46 | 11.0 | 16.116 h |
| June | 16.4°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 61 | 11.4 | 17.217 h |
| July | 18.7°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 61 | 11.5 | 16.717 h |
| August | 18.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 68 | 11.8 | 14.915 h |
| September | 16.2°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 57 | 9.9 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.9°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 64 | 12.4 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.3°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 71 | 13.1 | 8.59 h |
| December | 7.0°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 65 | 13.7 | 7.47 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
- Middlesbrough in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 2.5°C · 52 mm rain
- Stockton-on-Tees in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 15 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 2.4°C · 52 mm rain
- Sunderland in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 2.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Darlington in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 28 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 1.4°C · 51 mm rain
- South Shields in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 2.6°C · 46 mm rain
- Newcastle upon Tyne in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 41 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 2.0°C · 46 mm rain
- Harrogate in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 80 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 0.9°C · 55 mm rain
- York in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 81 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low 1.3°C · 46 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 Hartlepool) is explained once on the Hartlepool year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.