Moscow is typically cold in February.

Maximum temperatures go up compared to the previous month from -5°C to -4°C. The minimum temperature also goes down from -10°C to -11°C.

Wear your winter warms as it will be cold. To save space, layer, and don’t forget gloves and a scarf.

February is one of the coolest months in Moscow, here is the comparison with other months:

February weather is still as ok as in January. It’s getting warmer as February arrives. The average maximum temperature goes up from -5°C to -4°C during the day. The rainfall amount in February stays the same as in the previous month with a 1 mm of total precipitation. It feels drier, as humidity decreases from 86% to 83%. The average wind speed doesn’t change much during February, staying around 3 m/s. The amount of sunny days stay about the same, averaging 1 sunny days during the month.

March brings much the same weather, it remains ok.

Here’s how February is compared with other months in the amount of snow, total mm:

The climate in Moscow in February has not changed much over the last 43 years.

The average temperature was the lowest in 1987 (+6°C) and the highest in 2024 (+11°C). The driest year was 2014 with only 262 mm of rainfall, and the wettest year was 1980 with 601 mm.

For this page, we’ve looked at the typical weather in Moscow, based on historical hourly weather data from January 1, 1979, to December 31, 2023.

For past dates, we show actual recorded data at the location at that time. Forecasts are based on recorded weather during that day of the year, averaged over the total years for which we have records (unless stated otherwise). The daily temperature is the highest recorded temperature in the shadow during that day.