Weather in Launceston in March

Prime time. March is about as good as Launceston gets. Highs average 23.2 °C, lows 11 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 3 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 8 days, 2 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 March day reached 35 °C and the coldest night fell to 2.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 89 mm — roughly 141% of the month's rain in one day.

March is moderately variable: 15 mm in the driest year against 176 mm in the wettest, around an average of 63 mm. Roughly two Marchs in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 2.2 °C cooler than February, with April dropping another 4.2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in March

12.4 hours of daylight, losing 1.4 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 18.1 °C in March — 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.

March 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 — 4.2 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Burnie is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.8 °C cooler, 2 days more rain.

So: March is effectively as good as it gets here — 4 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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