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What is the weather like in Sweden in February?

SMHI normals for February, when the sun starts to return in the north.

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Short answer

In February the normal mean temperature is about -1 °C in Stockholm, 1 °C in Lund and -11 °C in Kiruna, according to SMHI. It is a dry month: 29 mm of precipitation in Stockholm, 43 mm in Lund and 26 mm in Kiruna. Sunshine is already clearly higher than in January, with 75 hours in Stockholm and 68 hours in Kiruna.

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Why

  1. SMHI's 1991–2020 normal mean temperature for February is -1.0 °C in Stockholm, 1.0 °C in Lund and -11.2 °C at Kiruna airport.
  2. According to SMHI, the February precipitation normal is 29 mm in Stockholm, 43 mm in Lund, 26 mm in Kiruna and 35 mm at Luleå airport.
  3. SMHI's sunshine normal for February is 75 hours in Stockholm, 64 in Lund and 68 in Kiruna, compared with 7 hours in Kiruna in January.

Details

February is one of the driest months of the year in Stockholm and Kiruna in SMHI's normals (29 and 26 mm). Temperatures hardly differ from January: Kiruna's normal is -11.2 °C against -11.3 °C. Gothenburg has the most precipitation of the places compared here, with 61 mm.

Tip

For a winter trip to the north, February gives far more sunshine than January (68 hours against 7 in Kiruna) at almost the same temperature, so daylight activities are easier to fit in.

What may differ

Averages hide big swings. In SMHI's February 2025 table Kiruna averaged -4.9 °C (normal -11.2), while Stockholm was -0.1 °C (normal -1.0).

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Sources

Information checked on 27 October 2026.

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