Weather in Devonport in June

Shoulder season. June sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. Highs sit at 13.1 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

June ranks 9 of 12 in Devonport: past the worst of the year but short of February, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 13 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 13.1 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day barely swings — 3 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest June day reached 16.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 5.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 82 mm — roughly 85% of the month's rain in one day.

June is moderately variable: 31 mm in the driest year against 229 mm in the wettest, around an average of 96 mm. Roughly two Junes in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 14.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, which at 13.1 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How June sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 14.8 °C in May, 13.1 here, 12.2 in July. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in June

June sits at the dark end of Devonport's year — 9.2 hours of daylight against 15.1 at midsummer, holding steady all month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 14.4 °C in June — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. The sea peaks at 18.3 °C in February and bottoms out at 12.5 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

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

June 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, 3 days more rain. Launceston is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: June is a compromise. February is 36 points better and is what Devonport is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Devonport

See all twelve months in Devonport, or where else to go in June.