Climate averages 1991–2020
New York City weather
in February.
A cold, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in New York City: daytime highs average 4.4°C and nights cool to about -4.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 77 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 37 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Manhattan (8 km away). In February its highs average 4.4°C, about as warm as New York City, with 77 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, New York City ranks joint 373rd of 498 for the warmest February highs and joint 277th of 498 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 498 cities is 11.1°C; New York City is 6.7°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 4.3°C to 8.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 77 mm to 105 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
New York City climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.1°C-4.8°C | -4.8°C | 81 | 9.1 | 9.610 h |
| February, selected | 4.4°C-4.5°C | -4.5°C | 77 | 8.4 | 10.611 h |
| March | 8.7°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 105 | 10.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 91 | 10.6 | 13.313 h |
| May | 20.4°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 85 | 10.9 | 14.414 h |
| June | 25.5°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 100 | 11.2 | 15.015 h |
| July | 28.5°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 103 | 11.1 | 14.815 h |
| August | 27.4°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 101 | 10.4 | 13.814 h |
| September | 23.6°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 94 | 9.4 | 12.513 h |
| October | 17.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 97 | 8.5 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.2°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 77 | 8.0 | 10.010 h |
| December | 5.8°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 100 | 9.7 | 9.39 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
- Manhattan in FebruaryUnited States · 8 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -4.6°C · 77 mm rain
- Brooklyn in FebruaryUnited States · 9 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -4.0°C · 77 mm rain
- Newark in FebruaryUnited States · 14 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -4.3°C · 78 mm rain
- Queens in FebruaryUnited States · 15 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low -3.5°C · 80 mm rain
- Passaic in FebruaryUnited States · 19 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -4.5°C · 78 mm rain
- The Bronx in FebruaryUnited States · 19 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -4.6°C · 80 mm rain
- Staten Island in FebruaryUnited States · 20 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -3.4°C · 78 mm rain
- Yonkers in FebruaryUnited States · 26 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -4.4°C · 76 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 New York City) is explained once on the New York City year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Brooklyn and Manhattan lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.