Affordable February events and entertainment - Greater Seattle on the Cheap

Our February events calendar features virtual and live events. We’ll continue to update this calendar throughout the month as many organizers announce new events and online content.

As always, we focus on events with a regular adult admission price of $15 or less. There are a few events with higher ticket prices that we feel might be worth a splurge, mostly music and film events.

For more expensive events, we look for popular events with available ticket discounts that can help bring the price down.

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Is it a 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, we lied again! But you get the drift. Right?

So…to fix this other micro-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. Since 2020 was a leap year, it Christmas was on Friday instead of Thursday. Hence, it “leaped” a day. So it’s a Leap Year.

The last Leap Day was February 29, 2020. The next leap days are: 2024, 2028, 2032.

Ground Hog Day is always February 2, the day when the arrival of spring is predicted! – DepositPhotos.com

February Holidays & Events

February is Black History Month
Groundhog Day (always Feb 2)
Super Bowl LVI February 13, 2022 will be played at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles
Lunar New Year (begins February 1, 2022 and is the Year of the Tiger)
Valentine’s Day (always Feb 14)
Day of Remembrance: Executive Order 9066 (February 19)
President’s Day (Feb 21, 2022, 3rd Monday)
Mardi Gras (March 1, 2022)

February events 2021

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.