Weather in Lima in February

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, February is the one. Highs average 30.7 °C, lows 24.1 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Lima barely has seasons. February scores 82 out of 100 against a best of 94 in July — 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 Lima's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

Rain falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 30.7 °C days and 24.1 °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: 22 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 33.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 22.2 °C.

February is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest February on record still only managed 20 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 8 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 8.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, 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: 30.1 °C in January, 30.7 here, 30.8 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

Lima sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.5 hours in February, against a range of just 1.4 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 22.7 °C in February — comfortable for a proper swim. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

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 Lima versus nearby

If Lima is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Trujillo is the weaker option in February — 5.6 °C warmer, 5 days more rain. Cusco is the weaker option in February — 13.9 °C cooler, 20 days more rain.

So: February works, with July the better month by 12 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Lima

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