Weather in Melbourne in February

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, February is the one. Highs average 25.6 °C, lows 15.4 °C, and rain falls on 7 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 7 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. 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: 6 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 41.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 10.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 70 mm — roughly 140% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. February rainfall has ranged from 5 mm to 150 mm across the twenty years measured — a 145 mm spread around an average of 50 mm. The average is real but almost no individual February looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 11.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 68%.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 26.2 °C in January, 25.6 here, 24 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

13.5 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Melbourne's extremes of 14.8 and 9.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 19.2 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

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 Melbourne versus nearby

If Melbourne is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Ballarat is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Bendigo is close enough to be a coin toss — 4 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 0 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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