Rain running off the edge of a thatched roof onto a tropical garden
February

Updated August 2026

Bali weather in February

The quietest month of the Bali year and the cheapest. You accept the sky in exchange, and for some trips that is a very good deal.

The numbersIs it right for your trip

February is the emptiest month on Bali and the cheapest, with around 275 mm of rain over roughly eighteen days and the most boat cancellations of the year. Temperature sits at 30 °C, as it does in every month.

It is the one month where you can have famous places genuinely to yourself, and pay under half what the same room costs in July. That is the entire argument for February, and it is a stronger one than the tour operator pages let on, because they have nothing to sell you in it.

February in figures

Orders of magnitude measured on the south coast, which is where every published average for Bali comes from. Ubud runs wetter and cooler at night, and above a thousand metres none of it applies.

Day
30 °C86 °F, unchanged from August
Night
24 °C75 °F, warm and humid
Sea
29 °C84 °F, warm and turbid
Rain
About 275 mmroughly eighteen days with rain on them
Sun
6 haverage per day, tied for the year's low
Humidity
About 85 %the heaviest of the year, with January

Is February a good time to visit Bali

Yes, for the trip nobody sells

February is the best value month of the year, by a distance. The island is soaked green, the waterfalls are at their most spectacular, and the sites that define a Bali trip are quiet enough to actually see.

It is a bad month for a beach holiday and a bad month for the islands. February brings more consecutive grey days than any other month, which is the one genuine weather complaint about it, and the boats to Nusa Penida cancel more often now than at any other point in the year.

Is February right for your trip

February separates travellers more cleanly than any other month. If your trip is built around the interior, it is excellent. If it is built around water, it is not.

Diving in February

Avoid, if you have a choice

Avoid month for this

The worst combination of the year: turbid water, the most cancellations on the crossing, and visibility around ten metres at sites that give thirty in September. The reef itself is unchanged and the mantas are resident year round, so nothing is missing except the ability to see it and to get there.

February is not one month

February is the most uniform month of the year: the weather, the prices and the crowds barely move across it. The one thing that does move is Chinese New Year, which lands somewhere between late January and mid February and shifts every year.

Chinese New Year week

The one busy week

Arrivals from across Asia lift occupancy and rates for roughly a week, concentrated in the south and around Ubud. It is nothing like a July crowd, but it is the difference between a quiet site and an empty one. The date moves every year, so check it against your dates rather than assuming a fortnight.

The rest of the month

The emptiest weeks on the calendar

Outside that week, February is as quiet as Bali gets. Rooms sit at their annual low and you can book a well reviewed place three days out. Famous sites need no strategy at all: arrive when you like, because the queue that defines them in August is simply not there.

What February does badly

Cloudy brown river water at the base of Tegenungan with stacked stone cairns on a boulder and people wading

Full volume, and brown

The falls are at their most impressive and the pool below them is silt. Wet season swimming is a photograph, not a swim.

Two things, and both are about water. The crossings to the Nusa islands are cancelled more often in February than in any other month, sometimes on the morning itself. An island day booked in February is an intention, not a plan.

The second is that February brings the year's highest chance of several grey days in a row. The usual wet season pattern of a bright morning and an afternoon hour holds most of the time, but the exception clusters here. Two washed out days inside a ten day trip is a real possibility.

Neither is a reason to write the month off. Both are reasons not to build the trip around Nusa Penida or around a beach.

Booking around February

In February the thing worth paying for is not the tour, it is the exit. Free cancellation is the whole product this month, and an operator who calls off a crossing on sea state is doing you a favour, not losing you a day.

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The month the sky decides

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Bali in February: common questions

Temperature, rain, the sea, crowds and what to wear.

Is February a good time to go to Bali?
For a land based trip on a budget, yes, and it is underrated. February is the emptiest and cheapest month of the year, the landscape is at its greenest and the waterfalls are at full volume. For a beach holiday or anything involving the Nusa islands, no. February has the most boat cancellations of any month and the water is too turbid for snorkelling. The month splits travellers rather than pleasing or disappointing all of them.
How much does it rain in Bali in February?
Around 275 mm across the month, over roughly eighteen days. The usual pattern is a bright or clear morning, cloud building through the middle of the day, then an hour or two of heavy rain in the afternoon. February also carries the year's highest chance of several consecutive grey days, which is the one genuine weather complaint about the month.
Is February the wettest month in Bali?
No, January is, at around 345 mm against February's 275. February is wetter than December in rain days but slightly drier in total volume. In practice the difference between the three is small and none of it should decide your dates. What separates them is price and crowds, where February is by far the best of the three.
Is Bali cheap in February?
It is the cheapest month of the year. Rooms commonly go for less than half their July rate, flights are at their annual low from both Europe and Australia, and tours run with space on them. Outside the Chinese New Year week, which moves each year, you can book good accommodation a few days ahead at short notice rates.
Can you swim in the sea in Bali in February?
The sea is 29 °C, the warmest of the year, so temperature is not the issue. Visibility and swell are. Runoff makes the water murky, the west coast beaches get onshore wind and chop most afternoons, and rip currents are a year round hazard on the south coast. Swimming is fine at sheltered spots like Sanur and Nusa Dua. Snorkelling is not worth booking.
What is there to do in Bali in February when it rains?
The rain usually falls in the afternoon, so the practical answer is to front load the day. Temples, rice terraces and waterfalls in the morning, then something indoors after lunch. Ubud handles a wet afternoon far better than a beach town does, with cooking classes, spas, galleries and covered warungs within walking distance of each other.

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The base that handles a wet afternoon far better than a beach town.

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February gives you the island at half price and takes the afternoons in return. These guides say what each place is really like and the hour that changes what you see.

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