Weather in Tulsa in February

Shoulder season. February is shoulder season in Tulsa — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 10.6 °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 Tulsa: past the worst of the year but short of October, 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 10.6 °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: 17 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 27.7 °C and the coldest night fell to -17.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 41 mm — roughly 85% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 6 mm in the driest year against 122 mm in the wettest, around an average of 48 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 13.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 75%, which at 10.6 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.2 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 6.4 °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 Tulsa's extremes of 14.6 and 9.7 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 37.2 °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 Tulsa versus nearby

If Tulsa is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Oklahoma City is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Wichita is close enough to be a coin toss — 2 °C cooler, 1 day less rain.

So: February is a compromise. October is 25 points better and is what Tulsa 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 Tulsa

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