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The driest places in Europe in February: ranked by rainfall

Chita tops the list at 1.7 mm in February. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in February: Chita (1.7 mm) , Yakutsk (2.5 mm) , Ulan-Ude (3.1 mm) . Between first and 50th place the rainfall differs by 26 mm.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Chita Russia 1.7 mm -9.9 °C -25 °C 2 mm 0 249 h –
2 Yakutsk Russia 2.5 mm -27 °C -36 °C 2 mm 1 184 h –
3 Ulan-Ude Russia 3.1 mm -9.6 °C -25 °C 3 mm 1 242 h –
4 Angarsk Russia 4.7 mm -9.1 °C -23 °C 5 mm 1 227 h –
5 Blagoveshchensk Russia 5.0 mm -10.0 °C -23 °C 5 mm 1 247 h –
6 Irkutsk Russia 5.5 mm -8.6 °C -21 °C 6 mm 2 229 h –
7 Abakan Russia 7.1 mm -8.7 °C -19 °C 7 mm 2 200 h –
8 Bratsk Russia 8.1 mm -13 °C -20 °C 8 mm 3 172 h –
9 Khabarovsk Russia 9.7 mm -11 °C -21 °C 10 mm 3 238 h –
10 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia 11 mm -13 °C -22 °C 11 mm 3 233 h –
11 Ussuriysk Russia 13 mm -4.0 °C -16 °C 13 mm 3 254 h –
12 Krasnoyarsk Russia 13 mm -9.5 °C -19 °C 13 mm 4 172 h –
13 Omsk Russia 13 mm -11 °C -18 °C 13 mm 4 151 h –
14 Astrakhan Russia 14 mm 1.4 °C -5.9 °C 14 mm 4 165 h –
15 Miass Russia 14 mm -8.3 °C -17 °C 14 mm 4 174 h –
16 Vladivostok Russia 14 mm -3.5 °C -10 °C 14 mm 3 255 h -0.4 °C
17 Yekaterinburg Russia 15 mm -9.2 °C -16 °C 15 mm 5 154 h –
18 Tyumen Russia 15 mm -10 °C -17 °C 15 mm 4 153 h –
19 Kurgan Russia 15 mm -9.5 °C -17 °C 15 mm 4 160 h –
20 Chelyabinsk Russia 15 mm -9.1 °C -16 °C 15 mm 5 169 h –
21 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 16 mm -8.6 °C -16 °C 16 mm 5 160 h –
22 Nizhny Tagil Russia 17 mm -9.2 °C -16 °C 17 mm 5 142 h –
23 Zlatoust Russia 17 mm -8.7 °C -16 °C 17 mm 6 162 h –
24 Surgut Russia 19 mm -15 °C -21 °C 19 mm 6 113 h –
25 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 19 mm -15 °C -21 °C 19 mm 6 115 h –
26 Magnitogorsk Russia 19 mm -8.3 °C -17 °C 19 mm 5 171 h –
27 Biysk Russia 20 mm -8.9 °C -17 °C 20 mm 6 184 h –
28 Elche Spain 20 mm 16 °C 7.0 °C 20 mm 4 262 h 14 °C
29 Prokop’yevsk Russia 20 mm -9.1 °C -17 °C 20 mm 6 161 h –
30 Novosibirsk Russia 20 mm -11 °C -18 °C 20 mm 6 150 h –
31 Zaragoza Spain 21 mm 13 °C 3.5 °C 21 mm 4 246 h –
32 Tomsk Russia 21 mm -11 °C -18 °C 21 mm 7 137 h –
33 Rubtsovsk Russia 21 mm -8.9 °C -18 °C 21 mm 6 186 h –
34 Barnaul Russia 21 mm -9.9 °C -18 °C 21 mm 6 169 h –
35 Cartagena Spain 21 mm 16 °C 9.9 °C 21 mm 4 267 h 15 °C
36 Severodvinsk Russia 22 mm -7.4 °C -12 °C 22 mm 7 79 h -1.0 °C
37 Murmansk Russia 22 mm -7.9 °C -13 °C 22 mm 6 79 h –
38 Orsk Russia 23 mm -8.2 °C -16 °C 23 mm 6 159 h –
39 Kemerovo Russia 23 mm -10 °C -17 °C 23 mm 7 152 h –
40 Murcia Spain 24 mm 17 °C 5.9 °C 24 mm 4 263 h –
41 Arkhangel’sk Russia 24 mm -7.8 °C -13 °C 24 mm 8 77 h –
42 Almería Spain 24 mm 17 °C 8.2 °C 24 mm 4 279 h 15 °C
43 Novokuznetsk Russia 25 mm -8.9 °C -17 °C 25 mm 7 163 h –
44 Albacete Spain 25 mm 12 °C 2.0 °C 25 mm 5 242 h –
45 Volgograd Russia 26 mm -2.2 °C -8.5 °C 26 mm 6 135 h –
46 Tiraspol Moldova 26 mm 4.1 °C -3.5 °C 26 mm 5 163 h –
47 Ulyanovsk Russia 26 mm -7.4 °C -13 °C 26 mm 7 128 h –
48 Syktyvkar Russia 26 mm -9.6 °C -15 °C 26 mm 8 86 h –
49 Makhachkala Russia 27 mm 5.2 °C 0.2 °C 27 mm 6 205 h 4.6 °C
50 Valencia Spain 27 mm 16 °C 6.9 °C 27 mm 4 255 h 14 °C

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

January: top 5

  1. Chita 1.4 mm
  2. Yakutsk 2.3 mm
  3. Ulan-Ude 3.1 mm
  4. Blagoveshchensk 4.1 mm
  5. Angarsk 4.6 mm

Full ranking for January

March: top 5

  1. Yakutsk 4.2 mm
  2. Chita 4.6 mm
  3. Ulan-Ude 5.4 mm
  4. Angarsk 9.2 mm
  5. Blagoveshchensk 10 mm

Full ranking for March

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Total precipitation, in mm, in February, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.