Weather in Granada in February

A good month. February works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs sit at 13.7 °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 Granada'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. Worth keeping in perspective: February is the weakest month of Granada's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

Rain on 7 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 13.7 °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 22.9 °C and the coldest night fell to -3.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 25 mm — roughly 60% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 1 mm in the driest year against 140 mm in the wettest, around an average of 42 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 10.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 12.9 °C in January, 13.7 here, 16.3 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

10.8 hours of daylight, gaining 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Granada's extremes of 14.7 and 9.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 27.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Granada versus nearby

If Granada is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Málaga is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.1 °C warmer, 1 day more rain. Sevilla is a better bet in February — 4 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: February is a compromise. May is 25 points better and is what Granada 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 Granada

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