BENDIGO has suffered through one of its driest Februarys on record.

The Bendigo Airport recorded only 4.4 millimetres for the month, about 13 per cent of the long-term average.

The skies opened on only three occasions, including a high of 2.4mm on the first day of the month.

Bendigo has gone 27 straight days without a drop rain since 0.2mm fell on February 3.

The scant rainfall was short of the driest February on record in Bendigo in 1997, when just 0.2mm fell.

January 2009 remains the city's driest ever month, with zero rainfall.

March is shaping as little better, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

"The outlook shows Bendigo has a 35 to 40 per cent chance of getting more rainfall than average in March – a dry outlook, but the odds aren't too strong," climatologist Jonathon Pollock said.

"The odds for getting warmer than normal temperatures is much stronger - 75 to 85 per cent for both maximum and minimum temperatures.