Weather in Xi’an in February

A good month. February is a solid month to be in Xi’an. Highs sit at 11.4 °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 Xi’an: 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 4 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 11.4 °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: 15 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 24.7 °C and the coldest night fell to -9.6 °C.

February is moderately variable: 3 mm in the driest year against 31 mm in the wettest, around an average of 13 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 5.8 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: 4.6 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 6.9 °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 Xi’an's extremes of 14.4 and 9.9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 37.4 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Xi’an versus nearby

If Xi’an is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Wuzhong is the weaker option in February — 5.7 °C cooler, 3 days less rain. Chongqing is a better bet in February — 3.8 °C warmer, 2 days more rain.

So: February is a compromise. March is 21 points better and is what Xi’an 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 Xi’an

See all twelve months in Xi’an, or where else to go in February.