Weather in Tri-Cities in February

Shoulder season. February sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. 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 9 of 12 in Tri-Cities: past the worst of the year but short of September, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 7 days, 0 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. 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: 12 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 21.3 °C and the coldest night fell to -11.4 °C.

February is moderately variable: 6 mm in the driest year against 60 mm in the wettest, around an average of 25 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 9.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.3 °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

10.3 hours of daylight, gaining 1.5 hours across the month. That is between Tri-Cities's extremes of 15.8 and 8.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 34.6 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Tri-Cities versus nearby

If Tri-Cities is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Spokane is the weaker option in February — 5.7 °C cooler, 3 days more rain. Portland is the weaker option in February — within a degree on temperature, 9 days more rain.

So: February is a compromise. September is 36 points better and is what Tri-Cities 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 Tri-Cities

See all twelve months in Tri-Cities, or where else to go in February.