Greece's central government recorded a better-than-targeted primary budget surplus of 4.2 billion euros ($4.46 billion) in January-February, due to higher revenues, finance ministry data showed on Thursday.

The government had targeted a primary budget surplus - which excludes debt-servicing costs, social security and local administration budgets - of 1.81 billion euros for the first two months of the year.

Budget revenues came in at 6.12 billion euros in the same period, outperforming the target by 1.29 billion euros, according to the official data.

Spending reached 10.65 billion euros, 311 million euros less than the government's target. ($1 = 0.9422 euros) (Reporting by Lefteris Papadimas)