Weather in Cartagena in February

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, February is the one. Highs average 30.3 °C, lows 25.8 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 2 of 12 in Cartagena. Only January scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 30.3 °C days and 25.8 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 16 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 4.5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 33.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 24.4 °C.

February is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest February on record still only managed 29 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Februarys brought 9 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind sits around 24.2 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 75%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.6 °C in January, 30.3 here, 30.4 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

Cartagena sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.8 hours in February, against a range of just 1.2 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27.2 °C in February — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.3 °C in October and bottoms out at 27.1 °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

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

February in Cartagena versus nearby

If Cartagena is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Barranquilla is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Medellín is the weaker option in February — 4.8 °C cooler, 17 days more rain.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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