Climate averages 1991–2020

Stamford weather
in February.

A cold, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 3.9°C Daytime mean, February
Average low -3.8°C Night-time mean, February
Rainfall 78 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Stamford · average highYear overview

February is a cold month in Stamford: daytime highs average 3.9°C and nights cool to about -3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 78 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 36 min on an average February day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Norwalk (13 km away). In February its highs average 3.8°C, about as warm as Stamford, with 78 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Stamford ranks joint 389th of 498 for the warmest February highs and joint 288th of 498 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 498 cities is 11.1°C; Stamford is 7.2°C cooler than that mean.

From February to March, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 8.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 78 mm to 105 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. -10-505101520253035 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 1500

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

Every month, side by side

Stamford climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Stamford, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 2.7°C-4.2°C-4.2°C849.09.610 h
February, selected 3.9°C-3.8°C-3.8°C788.710.611 h
March 8.0°C-0.1°C-0.1°C10510.311.912 h
April 14.3°C5.5°C5.5°C9310.513.313 h
May 19.8°C11.3°C11.3°C8510.914.514 h
June 25.0°C17.0°C17.0°C9410.815.115 h
July 28.3°C20.5°C20.5°C9210.714.815 h
August 27.2°C19.9°C19.9°C10310.513.814 h
September 23.2°C16.4°C16.4°C949.012.513 h
October 16.8°C10.4°C10.4°C1008.511.111 h
November 10.8°C4.7°C4.7°C828.59.910 h
December 5.5°C-0.3°C-0.3°C1059.89.39 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

Distance from Stamford

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 Stamford) is explained once on the Stamford year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

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