Climate averages 1991–2020
Federal Way weather
in February.
A cool, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Federal Way: daytime highs average 8.1°C and nights cool to about 0.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 135 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes February a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 14 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Auburn (7 km away). In February its highs average 8.8°C, 0.7°C warmer than Federal Way, with 135 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Federal Way ranks 304th of 498 for the warmest February highs and joint 484th of 498 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 498 cities is 11.1°C; Federal Way is 3.0°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 10.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 135 mm to 152 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
Federal Way climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 190 | 18.2 | 8.99 h |
| February, selected | 8.1°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 135 | 15.0 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.3°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 152 | 17.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.9°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 118 | 15.8 | 13.614 h |
| May | 16.7°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 78 | 11.9 | 15.115 h |
| June | 19.2°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 58 | 9.2 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.4°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 21 | 4.1 | 15.516 h |
| August | 23.7°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 28 | 4.5 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 64 | 8.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.3°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 131 | 13.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.2°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 206 | 18.1 | 9.49 h |
| December | 6.2°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 196 | 17.8 | 8.69 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
- Auburn in FebruaryUnited States · 7 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.4°C · 135 mm rain
- Kent in FebruaryUnited States · 9 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 121 mm rain
- Tacoma in FebruaryUnited States · 13 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 1.6°C · 115 mm rain
- Renton in FebruaryUnited States · 19 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 121 mm rain
- Seattle in FebruaryUnited States · 32 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 1.4°C · 121 mm rain
- Bellevue in FebruaryUnited States · 33 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.5°C · 121 mm rain
- Kirkland in FebruaryUnited States · 41 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 1.6°C · 119 mm rain
- Everett in FebruaryUnited States · 73 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 1.8°C · 148 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 Federal Way) is explained once on the Federal Way year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Auburn lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.