Climate averages 1991–2020
Rochdale weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Rochdale: daytime highs average 6.7°C and nights cool to about 1.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 78 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 45 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Oldham (9 km away). In February its highs average 6.2°C, about as warm as Rochdale, with 72 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Rochdale ranks joint 127th of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 129th of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Rochdale is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.1°C to 8.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 78 mm to 74 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
Rochdale climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.1°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 88 | 15.0 | 8.18 h |
| February, selected | 6.7°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 78 | 13.5 | 9.810 h |
| March | 8.8°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 74 | 13.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.5°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 66 | 12.8 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.5°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 69 | 12.8 | 15.916 h |
| June | 16.9°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 84 | 13.9 | 17.017 h |
| July | 18.7°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 84 | 15.1 | 16.516 h |
| August | 18.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 89 | 15.2 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.0°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 76 | 12.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.5°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 89 | 14.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 8.7°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 88 | 15.3 | 8.79 h |
| December | 6.3°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 99 | 15.0 | 7.68 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
- Oldham in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 9 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low 0.9°C · 72 mm rain
- Manchester in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 1.5°C · 78 mm rain
- Salford in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 1.4°C · 78 mm rain
- Bolton in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.4°C · 72 mm rain
- Burnley in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 1.1°C · 95 mm rain
- Halifax, United Kingdom in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 1.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Stockport in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 1.5°C · 78 mm rain
- Huddersfield in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 1.8°C · 66 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 Rochdale) is explained once on the Rochdale year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Manchester, Stockport and Salford lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.