Climate averages 1991–2020
Stafford 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 Stafford: daytime highs average 7.3°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 49 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 49 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cannock (14 km away). In February its highs average 7.0°C, about as warm as Stafford, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Stafford ranks joint 83rd of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 75th of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Stafford is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 9.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 49 mm to 52 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
Stafford climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.7°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 57 | 12.3 | 8.28 h |
| February, selected | 7.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 49 | 10.9 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.6°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 52 | 11.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.3°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 59 | 12.4 | 13.914 h |
| May | 15.3°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 63 | 11.7 | 15.816 h |
| June | 18.0°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 72 | 11.8 | 16.817 h |
| July | 20.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 70 | 12.3 | 16.416 h |
| August | 19.6°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 67 | 11.9 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.1°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 60 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.3°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 69 | 11.8 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.4°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 66 | 12.8 | 8.89 h |
| December | 6.9°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 66 | 12.0 | 7.78 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
- Cannock in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 14 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 1.4°C · 49 mm rain
- Stoke-on-Trent in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 1.5°C · 53 mm rain
- Wolverhampton in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 24 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 1.4°C · 47 mm rain
- Walsall in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 1.6°C · 47 mm rain
- Telford in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 47 mm rain
- Burton upon Trent in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 1.7°C · 49 mm rain
- West Bromwich in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 1.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Sutton Coldfield in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 1.5°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 Stafford) is explained once on the Stafford year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Cannock lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.