Weather in Moab in February

Shoulder season. February is shoulder season in Moab — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 10.2 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

February ranks 8 of 12 in Moab: past the worst of the year but short of April, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 10.2 °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: 15 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 20.6 °C and the coldest night fell to -18.5 °C.

February is moderately variable: 4 mm in the driest year against 50 mm in the wettest, around an average of 23 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 59%.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.3 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 5.7 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in February

10.7 hours of daylight, gaining 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Moab's extremes of 14.8 and 9.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 39.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 1227 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

February in Moab versus nearby

If Moab is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Aspen is the weaker option in February — 11 °C cooler, 6 days more rain. Park City is the weaker option in February — 10.5 °C cooler, 5 days more rain.

So: February is a compromise. April is 34 points better and is what Moab 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 Moab

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