Climate averages 1991–2020
Wakefield weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Wakefield: daytime highs average 7.2°C and nights cool to about 1.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 2nd 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 Leeds (13 km away). In February its highs average 7.3°C, about as warm as Wakefield, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Wakefield ranks joint 95th of 143 for the warmest February highs and joint 91st of 143 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 143 cities is 7.4°C; Wakefield is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.1°C to 9.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 54 mm to 53 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
Wakefield climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.5°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 60 | 12.7 | 8.18 h |
| February, selected | 7.2°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 54 | 11.3 | 9.710 h |
| March | 9.3°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 53 | 11.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.9°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 58 | 11.9 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.9°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 56 | 11.6 | 15.916 h |
| June | 17.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 71 | 12.1 | 17.017 h |
| July | 19.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 67 | 12.5 | 16.517 h |
| August | 19.3°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 72 | 12.0 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.8°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 60 | 10.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.1°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 64 | 12.1 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.2°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 64 | 12.7 | 8.79 h |
| December | 6.7°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 67 | 12.7 | 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
- Leeds in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Barnsley in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 15 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.3°C · 56 mm rain
- Huddersfield in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 1.8°C · 66 mm rain
- Bradford in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 1.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Halifax, United Kingdom in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 1.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Rotherham in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 2.0°C · 47 mm rain
- Doncaster in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 1.6°C · 47 mm rain
- Sheffield in FebruaryUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low 1.9°C · 56 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 Wakefield) is explained once on the Wakefield year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Leeds lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.