In February, the average daytime high across New York, Chicago, London, Paris and four other cold-winter cities is just 5°C (41°F). These 48 destinations are warm, dry and outside hurricane and monsoon season — ranked by climate data, not brochures.
February back home — average highs
🇺🇸 New York 6°C🇺🇸 Chicago 0.7°C🇺🇸 Boston 3°C🇨🇦 Toronto 0°C🇬🇧 London 9°C🇫🇷 Paris 9°C🇩🇪 Berlin 5°C🇳🇱 Amsterdam 7°C
February at a glance
Warmest: Phuket, Thailand — 33°C average high
Driest: Valparaíso, Chile — 1 mm of rain all month
Warmest sea: Recife — 30°C water
Mild and dry: Valparaíso, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Hurghada
Beach & island escapes (24–35°C)
Proper beach weather: warm days, warm evenings, and sea you can stay in. The long-haul classics, ranked by how established they are as destinations, then by how dry the month is.
Every destination in our climate dataset is checked against February's long-term averages:
Warm enough — beaches need a 24–35°C average high, mild coasts 19–23°C, cities 20–29°C.
Dry enough — no more than 120 mm of rain across the month (80 mm for the mild coasts). We judge rain by millimetres rather than rain days, because a five-minute tropical shower counts as a "rain day".
Outside storm season — anywhere in peak hurricane, cyclone or monsoon season that month is left out.
Within each group, better-known destinations come first, then the drier ones. "Warmer" is measured against the average February high of the eight cold-winter cities above. Sea temperatures are monthly sea-surface means.
