Our February events calendar features a wide variety of entertainment in the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan region. Holidays and special events include Groundhog Day (February 2), Super Bowl LIV (1st Sunday, February 2, 2020), Valentine’s Day (February 14), President’s Day (3rd Monday, February 17), and Mardi Gras (February 25, 2020). 2020 is a Leap Year, so February has 29 days instead of 28. February is also Black History Month nationwide and Museum Month in Seattle.
Below we include free things to do in February, plus entertainment with modest admission prices. There are a wide variety of events, including community festivals, food festivals, live music, museum events, performance arts, movies and film festivals, literary events, tours, arts & crafts, games, recreational sports, boating and outdoor activities, family fun, consignment sales, and much more.
For events with an admission price, we focus on those with a regular adult ticket price of $15 or less. There are often lower admission prices for children, seniors, active military, and veterans, so be sure to look for these when buying tickets. You’ll also find popular entertainment with a ticket price more than $15. For these, we search for ticket discounts and other ways to save you money while splurging on a special event.
What is Leap Year?
The Earth circles the Sun every 365 days. Well, not quite. It takes approximately 365.25 days. So that extra 1/4 day is added every four years on February 29.
Okay, we lied again. It takes slightly less than 365.25 days for Earth to go around the Sun. In fact, it takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds. If you are doing the math, adding one leap day every four years overcompensates by 11 minutes and 15 seconds every year. Which means if we keep adding one day every four years, the calendar will creep ahead and pretty soon winter will be summer. Like Game of Thrones. Okay, not like GOT, but you get the drift. Right?
So…to fix this other nano-discrepancy, the leap year is omitted every so often. Who the heck keeps track of this? Well, it’s not as complicated as it sounds. To correct this 11-plus-minute smidgen, we don’t add a leap day in years that are divisible by 100. But we do add a leap day in years that are divisible by 400. So, 2000 was a leap year, but 1700, 1800, and 1900 weren’t. And 2100 won’t be.
Okay, but why is it called “leap” year? Well, days of the week normally advance one day every year. For example, Christmas was on Monday in 2017, Tuesday in 2018, and Wednesday in 2019. Because 2020 is a leap year, it will be on Friday instead of Thursday. Hence, it “leaped” a day. So it’s a Leap Year.
February events 2020
Featured Events: The items listed first each day HIGHLIGHTED in GRAY are FEATURED EVENTS. Featured events are unique or annual events that we or our advertisers don’t want you to overlook.
(If nothing is listed below, February events haven’t been updated on our calendar for the coming year. We update information as organizers announce dates for upcoming events. Some organizers announce next years’ dates as soon as the current year’s event has ended, and some only announce new dates about 30 days–or less–before the event.)
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Friday, February 14, 2020
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
Friday, February 21, 2020
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Friday, February 28, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
But wait, there’s more!
- Find discount tickets on our Goldstar half-price tickets page and Find Groupon discounts on entertainment and food.
- Here’s our list of Valentine’s Day Events & Things to do.
- Find free and cheap things to do every day on the Greater Seattle on the Cheap calendar.
- And here’s a list of 101+ always free things to do for fun.
- Visit the Greater Seattle on the Cheap home page and choose from a menu of free and cheap activities in the Puget Sound region.
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