HANOI, March 1 (Reuters) - Shanghai copper prices fell on Monday, after ending February with their best monthly gain in nearly 12 years, as top consumer China reported subdued factory growth due to brief COVID-19-related disruptions.

The most-traded April copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange was down 2.5% at 67,450 yuan ($10,438.11) a tonne, as of 0733 GMT. The contract rose 18.9% in February, its biggest monthly jump since March 2009.

China's February official manufacturing Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) fell to 50.6 from 51.3 in January, official data showed, hitting its lowest level since last May and missing market expectations of 51.1.

"The weaker PMI was impacted by the high commodity prices, which made downstream producers wait and see and restrict some of producing demand," said CRU Group's China copper analyst He Tianyu.

"When (commodities) prices stablise or decrease, demand will be released to market again."

ShFE aluminium declined 2.2% to 17,020 yuan a tonne, nickel slipped 2.4% to 138,640 yuan a tonne, zinc shed 1.5% to 21,340 yuan a tonne, tin dropped 3.2% to 182,310 yuan a tonne, while lead lost 2.5% to 15,330 yuan a tonne.

Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange rose 0.7% to $9,143 a tonne, lead climbed 1.4% to $2,080.50 a tonne and zinc was up 0.9% to $2,818 a tonne.

FUNDAMENTALS

* Growth in new home prices in China eased slightly in February as demand slowed over the Lunar New Year and some major cities clamped down further on speculative buying, a private survey showed.

* The global zinc market climbed to a surplus of 35,000 tonnes in December from a revised surplus of 18,100 tonnes a month earlier, data from the International Lead and Zinc Study Group showed.

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($1 = 6.4619 yuan) (Reporting by Mai Nguyen, Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips and Rashmi Aich)