Climate averages 1991–2020
Berkeley weather
in February.
A mild, wet month: the 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a mild month in Berkeley: daytime highs average 15.1°C and nights cool to about 6.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 97 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes February a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 46 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Oakland (7 km away). In February its highs average 15.3°C, about as warm as Berkeley, with 97 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Berkeley ranks joint 203rd of 498 for the warmest February highs and joint 411th of 498 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 498 cities is 11.1°C; Berkeley is 4.0°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 16.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 97 mm to 73 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
Berkeley climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13.7°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 93 | 9.4 | 9.910 h |
| February, selected | 15.1°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 97 | 9.2 | 10.811 h |
| March | 16.8°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 73 | 8.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.9°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 34 | 4.9 | 13.213 h |
| May | 21.8°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 17 | 3.2 | 14.214 h |
| June | 24.9°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 3.6 | 0.9 | 14.715 h |
| July | 25.9°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 0.4 | 0.2 | 14.515 h |
| August | 26.2°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 0.9 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.2°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 1.4 | 0.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.2°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 21 | 2.9 | 11.211 h |
| November | 17.4°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 46 | 5.7 | 10.210 h |
| December | 13.6°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 87 | 9.3 | 9.610 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
- Oakland in FebruaryUnited States · 7 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 6.6°C · 97 mm rain
- San Francisco in FebruaryUnited States · 17 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 7.0°C · 113 mm rain
- Concord (California), United States in FebruaryUnited States · 24 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 6.6°C · 96 mm rain
- Daly City in FebruaryUnited States · 25 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 7.2°C · 113 mm rain
- Vallejo in FebruaryUnited States · 26 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 6.1°C · 107 mm rain
- San Ramon in FebruaryUnited States · 28 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 6.1°C · 94 mm rain
- Hayward in FebruaryUnited States · 28 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 6.8°C · 94 mm rain
- San Mateo in FebruaryUnited States · 35 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 7.5°C · 107 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 Berkeley) is explained once on the Berkeley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Oakland lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.