February is the last comfortable month before the warming begins in earnest. Daytime figures move from the low twenties towards the high twenties across it, nights stay cool enough for a jacket on the coast, and the shamal winds that carry dust down from the north-west are at their most frequent in February 2030, closing visibility for a day at a time and then clearing as quickly.
The working-day count for February 2030 comes down to its 28 days measured against the weekends, with nothing fixed subtracted from them. Where Eid Al Fitr falls inside February, three consecutive days come out — and where any of the three meet a Saturday or Sunday they are lost rather than moved, which is the largest single source of variation in the UAE calendar.
The move from February into March takes the country through the last few weeks in which the middle of the day is usable outdoors. February 2030 hands over the shortest month on the calendar to one that carries a spring break, a racing weekend at Meydan and, in two of these five years, the whole of Eid Al Fitr.