Climate averages 1991–2020

Oakland 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.

Average high 15.3°C Daytime mean, February
Average low 6.6°C Night-time mean, February
Rainfall 97 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Oakland · average highYear overview

February is a mild month in Oakland: daytime highs average 15.3°C and nights cool to about 6.6°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 Berkeley (7 km away). In February its highs average 15.1°C, about as warm as Oakland, with 97 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Oakland ranks joint 187th 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; Oakland is 4.1°C warmer than that mean.

From February to March, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 17.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 97 mm to 73 mm.

The annual picture

February in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Oakland climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Oakland, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 14.0°C5.7°C5.7°C939.49.910 h
February, selected 15.3°C6.6°C6.6°C979.210.811 h
March 17.0°C7.8°C7.8°C738.811.912 h
April 18.9°C8.9°C8.9°C344.913.113 h
May 21.7°C10.9°C10.9°C173.214.214 h
June 24.8°C12.6°C12.6°C3.60.914.715 h
July 26.0°C13.7°C13.7°C0.40.214.515 h
August 26.3°C14.2°C14.2°C0.90.113.614 h
September 26.2°C13.8°C13.8°C1.40.412.512 h
October 23.2°C12.1°C12.1°C212.911.311 h
November 17.6°C8.6°C8.6°C465.710.210 h
December 13.8°C6.0°C6.0°C879.39.610 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

Distance from Oakland

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Oakland) is explained once on the Oakland year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Berkeley lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.