The sun-drenched Cape Verde has a subtropical dry climate. February is similar to the month of January. There is a pleasant average temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and the chance of rain is an exception. This means that you can enjoy fine weather in February on the Cape Verde islands. The Cape Verde islands consist of nine inhabited islands, namely Sal, Boa Vista, São Nicolau, São Vicente, Santo Antão, Santiago, Maio, Fogo and Brava.

What kind of weather can you expect in Cape Verde in February? Below you will find the averages of the most important meteorological variables. These are the average daytime maximum, the sea temperature and the days of rain, as the climate table gives them. The weather data for the month of February is based on historical weather data and does not provide an actual weather forecast for Cape Verde.

In short

  • Temperatures 24.9°C
  • Dry and sunny
  • Windiest month of the year (ideal for kitesurfing)
  • Sea temperature 22°C
  • Virtually no rain

Temperature in February

February is the coolest month of this tropical archipelago, with an average daytime maximum of 24.9 degrees Celsius. Nothing about it is actually cold; you notice the difference with summer mainly in the shade and in the wind.

Maximum temperature in February - Cape Verde

Maximum temperature — day by day within the month

Rain in February

February also stands at 0 days of rain in the climate table. Anyone travelling in February can plan their days with virtually no risk of rain.

Rain in February - Cape Verde

Rainfall — day by day within the month

Wind in February

Like January, February is a distinctly windy month, with the trade wind at its strongest. Conditions are ideal for surfers. The climate table carries no wind values, so we give no speed here.

The weather in Cape Verde in other months

Data accounting

Every figure on this page comes from the climate table on Cape Verde climate and weather: measuring station Sal, Amílcar Cabral airport (Espargos), reference period the 1991–2020 climate normal. A day of rain is a day with at least 1 millimetre of rainfall. Those values hold for Sal and for the flat eastern islands. The other islands have no measuring series of their own, so we give no figures island by island. On the mountainous islands such as Santo Antão and Fogo it is cooler and wetter at altitude.

The graph above shows something different from the table: how the month runs day by day, taken from the historical daily reports of weather station 85940 over 2012 to 2018. That series is not a climate normal and is not the source of any figure in the text; it is there to show whether a month runs flat or erratic.