Weather in Hobart in February

Prime time. February is about as good as Hobart gets. Highs average 21.5 °C, lows 12.7 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 8 days, 1 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

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 32.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 8.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 35 mm — roughly 81% of the month's rain in one day.

February is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest February on record still delivered 92 mm against 16 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 43 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 14.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 70%.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 21.9 °C in January, 21.5 here, 20.1 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

13.8 hours of daylight, losing 1.4 hours across the month. That is between Hobart's extremes of 15.3 and 9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 16.6 °C in February — 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. If the dates are flexible, April is the trade worth considering — 12 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

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

February in Hobart versus nearby

If Hobart is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Launceston is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.9 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Devonport is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 0 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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