Weather in Hobart in July

Shoulder season. July sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. Highs sit at 11.9 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

July ranks 11 of 12 — near the bottom of Hobart's year. January is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 34 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 13 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 11.9 °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 — 5.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 16.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 2.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 52 mm — roughly 87% of the month's rain in one day.

July is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest July on record still delivered 125 mm against 15 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 60 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 14.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 85%, which at 11.9 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 12.5 °C in June, 11.9 here, 12.3 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

July sits at the dark end of Hobart's year — 9.3 hours of daylight against 15.3 at midsummer, gaining 0.7 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 13 °C in July — too cold to swim without a wetsuit. The sea peaks at 16.6 °C in February and bottoms out at 12.4 °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.

July 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 — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Devonport is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: July is a compromise. January is 34 points better and is what Hobart is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

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