Paris in February: February is the transition month between deep winter and the first spring signals. Days grow noticeably longer and the first thaw periods signal the coming change. Paris has a temperate oceanic climate with warm summers, mild winters and rain spread throughout the year. Climate change is leaving visible traces here too: deviations from the long-term mean reveal how weather extremes in Paris have shifted over the past decades.
February in Paris typically shows fluctuating temperatures between frost and the first thaw phases. Deviations from the 10-year average reveal how the local climate is changing.
Planning around February in Paris? This page shows the average weather in Paris during February 2026, compared against the 10-year climatological mean. The comparison covers daily maximum and minimum temperature, sunshine hours, precipitation, and peak wind speed. Those five variables most reliably describe whether a month felt warmer, sunnier, wetter or windier than usual.
Historical weather data for Paris comes from the ERA5 reanalysis product, a high-resolution dataset maintained by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and delivered through Open-Meteo. ERA5 is one of the most accurate publicly available sources for historical Paris climate values, updated daily and covering every month from 1940 to today. That means typical Paris February conditions are grounded in measured values, not a statistical model.
The KPI cards on this page each show two numbers: the current February 2026 value for Paris, and its deviation from the 10-year reference mean. A positive deviation means the month ran warmer, sunnier, wetter or windier than the recent climate normal for Paris in February. Weather in Paris Februaryhas shifted measurably over recent decades; to explore Paris February climate year by year, open the climate trend page. To compare Paris weather against another city for the same month, use the weather comparison tool.
This page is a retrospective, not a forecast. If you are planning travel, a garden project, a photo shoot, or an event in Paris in February, use the measured historical values as a realistic baseline and treat them as a distribution, not a guarantee. The 10-year mean smooths over individual extreme years; the current-year values show where this particular February sat against that baseline. For typical Paris February conditions across a longer window, the climate trend page covers every year back to 1940. For day-level detail rather than monthly aggregates, compare arbitrary date ranges for Paris using the period comparison tool on the homepage.
This page compares the daily measured values of the current year against the average of the last ten years, the so-called 10-year mean. The deviation values in the KPI cards show directly whether the current month is warmer, sunnier, wetter, or windier than usual. The reference data comes from Open-Meteo's ERA5 weather archive and includes daily measured maximum and minimum temperatures, sunshine hours, precipitation totals, and wind speeds.
A ten-year average is short enough to reflect current climate trends, yet long enough to statistically balance out individual extreme years. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recommends 30-year normals as the official climate reference, our 10-year mean is deliberately more present-focused and therefore shows the climate change of the most recent decade more clearly.
The daily data for the current year comes directly from Open-Meteo in real time. The reference mean is calculated from actual measured values of the last 10 years, no statistical model, but real historical archive data. The basis is ECMWF's ERA5 reanalysis dataset.
The deviation shows the difference between the current monthly average and the 10-year reference value for the same month. A value of +2.3 °C means: the current month is on average 2.3 degrees warmer than the average of the last 10 years.
Weather review pages are available for over 100 cities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Choose your city from the overview page or use the weather comparison tool on the homepage for custom periods.