Climate averages 1991–2020
Rotherham weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Rotherham: daytime highs average 7.5°C and nights cool to about 2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 47 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 46 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sheffield (9 km away). In February its highs average 7.3°C, about as warm as Rotherham, with 56 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Rotherham ranks joint 57th of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 56th of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Rotherham is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 9.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 47 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
Rotherham climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 53 | 12.1 | 8.18 h |
| February, selected | 7.5°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 47 | 10.6 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.7°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 49 | 10.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.4°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 58 | 11.7 | 14.014 h |
| May | 15.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 58 | 11.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 18.2°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 74 | 12.2 | 16.917 h |
| July | 20.3°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 69 | 12.1 | 16.516 h |
| August | 19.9°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 73 | 11.9 | 14.815 h |
| September | 17.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 58 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.5°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 61 | 11.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.6°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 61 | 12.1 | 8.79 h |
| December | 7.0°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 60 | 12.1 | 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
- Sheffield in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 9 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low 1.9°C · 56 mm rain
- Barnsley in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.3°C · 56 mm rain
- Doncaster in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 1.6°C · 47 mm rain
- Chesterfield in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 20 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 1.6°C · 57 mm rain
- Wakefield in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 1.6°C · 54 mm rain
- High Peak in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low 0.6°C · 72 mm rain
- Mansfield in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 1.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Huddersfield in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 37 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 Rotherham) is explained once on the Rotherham year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Doncaster lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.