Weather in Devonport in January

Prime time. January is about as good as Devonport gets. Highs average 19.5 °C, lows 14.5 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

January ranks 2 of 12 in Devonport. Only February scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

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 January reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest January day reached 29.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 9.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 52 mm — roughly 102% of the month's rain in one day.

January is moderately variable: 6 mm in the driest year against 137 mm in the wettest, around an average of 51 mm. Roughly two Januarys 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 January sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 17.5 °C in December, 19.5 here, 19.9 in February. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in January

January is at or near the longest days of Devonport's year: 14.8 hours of daylight, losing 0.8 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 17.4 °C in January — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. 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.

January 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 — 6.4 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: January is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind February, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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