Weather in Burnie in March

Prime time. March is about as good as Burnie gets. Highs average 19.4 °C, lows 13.3 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 3 of 12 in Burnie. Only February scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 10 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average March reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 27.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 46 mm — roughly 61% of the month's rain in one day.

March is moderately variable: 22 mm in the driest year against 160 mm in the wettest, around an average of 76 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 9.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 78%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 20.6 °C in February, 19.4 here, 16.9 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in March

12.4 hours of daylight, losing 1.4 hours across the month. That is between Burnie's extremes of 15.1 and 9.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 18.1 °C in March — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

March in Burnie versus nearby

If Burnie is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Devonport is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain. Launceston is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.8 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: March works, with February the better month by 7 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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