Weather in Cali in February

Shoulder season. February is shoulder season in Cali — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. The heat itself is manageable at 30.6 °C, but 83% humidity is what you will actually feel.

February ranks 6 of 12 in Cali: past the worst of the year but short of August, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 12 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 83% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 17 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 36.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 16.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 37 mm — roughly 53% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 22 mm in the driest year against 144 mm in the wettest, around an average of 70 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 4.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 83%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.2 °C in January, 30.6 here, 30.2 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: March brings 5 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in February

Cali sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12 hours in February, against a range of just 0.4 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 10.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 758 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself. February is the value pick for Cali: it scores within 8 points of August without carrying August's prices.

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

February in Cali versus nearby

If Cali is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bogotá is a better bet in February — 10.5 °C cooler, 1 day more rain. Medellín is close enough to be a coin toss — 5.1 °C cooler, 6 days more rain.

So: February works, with August the better month by 8 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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