Weather in Baton Rouge in February

A good month. February is a solid month to be in Baton Rouge. Highs average 18.1 °C, lows 6.5 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 5 of 12 in Baton Rouge: past the worst of the year but short of November, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 10 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average February reaches 30 °C; 4 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 28.1 °C and the coldest night fell to -5.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 72 mm — roughly 61% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 39 mm in the driest year against 248 mm in the wettest, around an average of 118 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 6.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 84%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.4 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 3.9 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in February

11.1 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Baton Rouge's extremes of 14.1 and 10.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 28.5 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

February in Baton Rouge versus nearby

If Baton Rouge is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. New Orleans is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Jackson is the weaker option in February — 3.1 °C cooler, 1 day more rain.

So: February works, with November the better month by 9 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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