Weather in Sedona in February

A good month. February is a solid month to be in Sedona. Highs sit at 13.6 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

February ranks 7 of 12 in Sedona: 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 13.6 °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: 13 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 24.9 °C and the coldest night fell to -15.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 38 mm — roughly 79% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. February rainfall has ranged from 1 mm to 156 mm across the twenty years measured — a 155 mm spread around an average of 48 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 2.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 60%.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 1.6 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 4.7 °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

10.9 hours of daylight, gaining 1 hours across the month. That is between Sedona's extremes of 14.5 and 9.8 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 35.2 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 1326 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

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

February in Sedona versus nearby

If Sedona is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Phoenix is a better bet in February — 8.1 °C warmer, 2 days less rain. Tucson is a better bet in February — 7.1 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: February is a compromise. April is 26 points better and is what Sedona 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 Sedona

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