Weather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in February

Prime time. February is about as good as Las Palmas de Gran Canaria gets. Highs average 18.7 °C, lows 16.4 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria barely has seasons. February scores 86 out of 100 against a best of 100 in June — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose. Worth keeping in perspective: February is the weakest month of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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; the day barely swings — 2.3 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 22.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 13.4 °C.

February is moderately variable: 5 mm in the driest year against 68 mm in the wettest, around an average of 22 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 20.1 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 18.9 °C in January, 18.7 here, 19.2 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

11.2 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's extremes of 13.9 and 10.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 18.9 °C in February — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 23.9 °C in September and bottoms out at 18.8 °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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria versus nearby

If Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Funchal is the weaker option in February — 2.6 °C cooler, 2 days more rain. Agadir is close enough to be a coin toss — 5.1 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: February works, with June the better month by 14 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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