Weather in Valencia in February

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, February is the one. Highs average 17.3 °C, lows 6.7 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 6 of 12 in Valencia: past the worst of the year but short of March, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 17.3 °C days and 6.7 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 26.6 °C and the coldest night fell to -1.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 31 mm — roughly 124% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 1 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 10.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 68%.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 16.6 °C in January, 17.3 here, 20.3 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

10.7 hours of daylight, gaining 1.2 hours across the month. That is between Valencia's extremes of 14.9 and 9.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 13.6 °C in February — too cold to swim without a wetsuit. The sea peaks at 26.4 °C in August and bottoms out at 13.6 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

February in Valencia versus nearby

If Valencia is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Murcia is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Cartagena is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: February works, with March the better month by 7 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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