Climate averages 1991–2020
Seattle weather
in February.
A cool, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Seattle: daytime highs average 8.6°C and nights cool to about 1.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 121 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes February a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 13 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bellevue (10 km away). In February its highs average 8.8°C, about as warm as Seattle, with 121 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Seattle ranks 300th of 498 for the warmest February highs and joint 469th of 498 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 498 cities is 11.1°C; Seattle is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 10.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 121 mm to 139 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
Seattle climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 176 | 18.4 | 8.99 h |
| February, selected | 8.6°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 121 | 14.7 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.8°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 139 | 17.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.4°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 113 | 14.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.1°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 76 | 12.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 19.7°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 59 | 9.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.7°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 25 | 5.0 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.0°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 33 | 4.8 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.6°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 67 | 8.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.6°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 134 | 14.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.6°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 194 | 18.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 6.6°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 178 | 17.7 | 8.59 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
- Bellevue in FebruaryUnited States · 10 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.5°C · 121 mm rain
- Kirkland in FebruaryUnited States · 12 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 1.6°C · 119 mm rain
- Renton in FebruaryUnited States · 16 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 121 mm rain
- Kent in FebruaryUnited States · 26 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 121 mm rain
- Federal Way in FebruaryUnited States · 32 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 0.9°C · 135 mm rain
- Auburn in FebruaryUnited States · 34 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.4°C · 135 mm rain
- Tacoma in FebruaryUnited States · 40 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 1.6°C · 115 mm rain
- Everett in FebruaryUnited States · 43 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 Seattle) is explained once on the Seattle year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Bellevue, Kent and Renton lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.