Weather in Hobart in March

Prime time. March is about as good as Hobart gets. Highs average 20.1 °C, lows 12.1 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 3 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 10 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

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average March reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 33.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 7.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 64 mm — roughly 112% of the month's rain in one day.

March is moderately variable: 29 mm in the driest year against 150 mm in the wettest, around an average of 57 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 13.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 21.5 °C in February, 20.1 here, 17.2 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in March

12.5 hours of daylight, losing 1.5 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 16.3 °C in March — 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.

March 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 — 3.1 °C warmer, 2 days less rain. Devonport is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain.

So: March is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 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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