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Where to go in February

What is actually pleasant in February — by average temperature and rainy days, not by feel. The numbers are climate normals, the same for every place.

Cities

Santiago

Chile

22°C1 rainy day

Nairobi

Kenya

21°C6 rainy days

Luxor

Egypt

17°C0 rainy days

Windhoek

Namibia

22°C9 rainy days

Buenos Aires

Argentina

24°C7 rainy days

Hanoi

Vietnam

19°C10 rainy days

Cairo

Egypt

15°C2 rainy days

Marrakech

Morocco

15°C4 rainy days

Coast

Lamu

Kenya

28°C2 rainy days

Pleasant, and off season

The weather holds but the crowds and prices have dropped — the month where the same destination costs less than at peak.

San Pedro de Atacama

Chile

19°C2 rainy days

Swakopmund

Namibia

20°C2 rainy days

Masai Mara

Kenya

19°C10 rainy days

Ha Long Bay

Vietnam

18°C10 rainy days

Buenos Aires

Argentina

24°C7 rainy days

Hanoi

Vietnam

19°C10 rainy days

Temperatures and rainy days are climate normals from `content_geo.py`, the same for all 214 places. “Pleasant” means: a city at 12–26°C with at most 10 rainy days, coast above 24°C with at most 6, mountains 8–24°C with at most 10.

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Plaza de Armas de Santiago 2017 b — WeHaKa, CC BY-SA 4.0
A giraffe with a beautiful background of Nairobi City Skyline — Alexmbogo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Balloon over Luxor - Egypt — Marcosleal, CC BY-SA 3.0
Windhuk Independence Avenue 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Buenos Aires - La Boca - Caminito - 200807i — Luis Argerich from Buenos Aires, Argentina, CC BY 2.0
Hanoi Old Quarter, 9 March 2019-2 — Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0
Flickr - Gaspa - Cairo, Bazar el-Khalili — Francesco Gasparetti from Senigallia, Italy, CC BY 2.0
Maroc Marrakech Jemaa-el-Fna Luc Viatour — No machine-readable author provided. Lviatour assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Medina of Kairouan 17042022 004 — Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Amfiteatre d'El Djem - interior — Josep Renalias Lohen11, CC BY 4.0
Chouara Tannery - 154 - Marokko Handybilder 2018 - Fes (27347707917) — Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0
Plaza de Espana, Seville — Dokkolo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, August 2026 — Esniom, CC BY-SA 4.0
Miradouro das Portas do Sol Lisbon Alfama overview pano — Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bardo Museum(102) — Sinda BF, CC BY-SA 4.0
Via Vittorio Emanuele Mittags — Clemensfranz, CC BY-SA 3.0
Donkeys Transporting Building Materials — Huseinali22, CC BY-SA 4.0
Géiseres del Tatio, Atacama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 51-53 HDR — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Swakopmund Woermannhaus 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Philae Temple Complex, Agilkia Island, Aswan, AG, EGY (48026937717) — Warren LeMay from Cullowhee, NC, United States, CC0
Cape Cross Seal Colony, RTW 2012 (8395938208) — Ana Raquel S. Hernandes from Sao Paulo, Brazil, CC BY-SA 2.0
Templo de Nefertari, Abu Simbel, Egipto, 2022-04-02, DD 101 — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Zebras and hot air balloons, Masai Mara (52463175924) — flowcomm, CC BY 2.0
Centro cívico de San Carlos de Bariloche en 2022 — César Pérez , CC BY-SA 4.0
Sung Sot Cave, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, 20240128 1549 3836 — Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0
Tunisia-3901 - Chott el Jerid (8032314619) — Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0
Wat Doi Suthep 04 — ErwinMeier, CC BY-SA 4.0
Above Moroccan Dunes — Patricia Ilizaliturri, CC BY-SA 4.0
Aconcagua (Mendoza) 2022-11 (4) — Mauricio V. Genta, CC BY-SA 4.0
Madeira-Levada do Risco (path PR6.1)-Casa do Rabacal-hiking trail-02ASD — Asurnipal, CC BY-SA 4.0
Aït Benhaddou view from above — Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0
Palacio Nacional da Pena, Sintra, Portugal, 2019-05-25, DD 84 — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Chefchaouen, Morocco (Unsplash) — Azer Koçulu azer, CC0
Roussanou Monastery, Meteora — Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Via dell'Abbondanza (Pompeii) — Rabax63, CC BY-SA 4.0
Riomaggiore SE Wide Cinque Terre Italy Sep23 A7C 07305 — This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author. I wo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pamukkale Hierapolis Travertine pools — Pvasiliadis, CC BY-SA 3.0
Village of Gordes — Einaz80, CC BY-SA 4.0

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