Weather in Kingston upon Hull in February

A hard month. February is a hard month in Kingston upon Hull, and worth planning around. Highs sit at 7.4 °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 Kingston upon Hull's year. September is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 45 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 12 days, 0 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 7.4 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 11 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 16.2 °C and the coldest night fell to -8.6 °C.

February is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest February on record still delivered 97 mm against 21 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 51 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 13.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 91%, which at 7.4 °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: 6.4 °C in January, 7.4 here, 9.9 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

9.8 hours of daylight, gaining 2 hours across the month. That is between Kingston upon Hull's extremes of 17 and 7.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 6.8 °C in February — too cold to swim without a wetsuit. The sea peaks at 15.8 °C in August and bottoms out at 6.5 °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 Kingston upon Hull versus nearby

If Kingston upon Hull is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Manchester is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Birmingham is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: February is a compromise. September is 38 points better and is what Kingston upon Hull 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 Kingston upon Hull

See all twelve months in Kingston upon Hull, or where else to go in February.