Weather in Bari in February

Shoulder season. February is shoulder season in Bari — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 13.5 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

February ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Bari's year. May is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 29 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 10 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 13.5 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 22.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 0.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 32 mm — roughly 65% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 13 mm in the driest year against 110 mm in the wettest, around an average of 49 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 14.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 79%, which at 13.5 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 12.9 °C in January, 13.5 here, 16.1 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

10.6 hours of daylight, gaining 1.3 hours across the month. That is between Bari's extremes of 15.1 and 9.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 13.8 °C in February — too cold to swim without a wetsuit. The sea peaks at 25.9 °C in August and bottoms out at 13.8 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

February in Bari versus nearby

If Bari is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Dubrovnik is the weaker option in February — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Positano is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: February is a compromise. May is 24 points better and is what Bari is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Bari

See all twelve months in Bari, or where else to go in February.