Weather in Split in February

Shoulder season. February is shoulder season in Split — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 11.2 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

February ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Split's year. June is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 36 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 10 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 11.2 °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: the day barely swings — 4.8 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 17 °C and the coldest night fell to -5.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 70 mm — roughly 79% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 17 mm in the driest year against 204 mm in the wettest, around an average of 89 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 14 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 77%, which at 11.2 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 10.5 °C in January, 11.2 here, 14 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

10.5 hours of daylight, gaining 1.4 hours across the month. That is between Split's extremes of 15.4 and 9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

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 Split versus nearby

If Split is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Dubrovnik is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Slavonski Brod is the weaker option in February — 3.9 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: February is a compromise. June is 32 points better and is what Split 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 Split

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