Weather in Launceston in February

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, February is the one. Highs average 25.4 °C, lows 12.3 °C, and rain falls on 7 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 7 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 35.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 5.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 38 mm — roughly 97% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 4 mm in the driest year against 71 mm in the wettest, around an average of 39 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 9.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 67%.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 25.9 °C in January, 25.4 here, 23.2 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

13.7 hours of daylight, losing 1.3 hours across the month. That is between Launceston's extremes of 15.1 and 9.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 18.3 °C in February — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. 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.

February in Launceston versus nearby

If Launceston is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Devonport is close enough to be a coin toss — 5.5 °C cooler, 1 day less rain. Burnie is close enough to be a coin toss — 4.8 °C cooler, 1 day more rain.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 1 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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