Weather in Devonport in February

Prime time. February is about as good as Devonport gets. Highs average 19.9 °C, lows 15.1 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is January, and the month at the other end of the year is August.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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 February reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 4.8 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 25.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 10.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 44 mm — roughly 119% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 4 mm in the driest year against 86 mm in the wettest, around an average of 37 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 13.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 75%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 19.5 °C in January, 19.9 here, 19 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

13.7 hours of daylight, losing 1.3 hours across the month. That is between Devonport'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 18.3 °C in February — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

February in Devonport versus nearby

If Devonport is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Burnie is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Launceston is close enough to be a coin toss — 5.5 °C warmer, 1 day more rain.

So: February is the answer for Devonport. If it is booked out or priced out, January is the next best thing at 3 points behind, and August is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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