An island state with a third of its area under protection, and weather that arrives straight off the Southern Ocean. Daytime highs in Tasmania run from about 10 °C in July to 20 °C in January, an annual range of roughly 10 °C.
Measured against a hiking trip, the conditions hold up January to March. January is the most consistent single month: highs near 20 °C, nights around 12 °C, and roughly 74 mm of rain across the month.
The binding constraint here is rainfall and temperature — that is what rules months out, not any composite judgement. May is the weakest month on these criteria.
April, December sit just outside the window — part of the month works and part does not. These are usually the interesting weeks: conditions are close to the peak-season answer while prices and crowds are not. The map lets you check them fortnight by fortnight rather than trusting a monthly average.
What Tasmania is known for
- The Overland Track runs 65 km from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair, Australia's deepest lake
- Wineglass Bay in Freycinet National Park is the postcard, reached by a short but steep saddle climb
- MONA in Hobart is Australia's largest privately funded museum, entered via a tunnel cut into sandstone
- The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area covers roughly 20 percent of the island
- Dark skies and a southern latitude make aurora australis genuinely possible from the south coast
Month by month
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Precip mm | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20 | 12 | 74 | 10.0 |
| February | 19 | 12 | 65 | 9.7 |
| March | 18 | 11 | 79 | 10.9 |
| April | 15 | 9 | 87 | 11.4 |
| May | 12 | 7 | 97 | 12.2 |
| June | 10 | 5 | 101 | 12.7 |
| July | 10 | 5 | 118 | 14.1 |
| August | 11 | 5 | 129 | 15.2 |
| September | 12 | 6 | 122 | 15.1 |
| October | 14 | 7 | 112 | 14.9 |
| November | 16 | 8 | 94 | 13.2 |
| December | 18 | 10 | 89 | 12.1 |
Ticked rows are months where every hard requirement for a hiking trip is met across at least half the month.
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Nearby regions
Figures are 30-year climatology sampled at Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Mountain, Strahan and Freycinet, averaged across those locations, from ERA5-Land reanalysis fitted with a harmonic seasonal cycle and a trend term, evaluated for 2026. Sampling named towns rather than averaging the whole region avoids blending valley and mountain conditions into a figure true of neither. Cells are about 0.08° wide, from ERA5-Land's 0.1° grid, which is itself driven by a 0.25° (~28 km) atmospheric reanalysis — so individual valleys, sheltered bays and single summits are not resolved. In steep terrain read these as conditions for the wider area rather than for one village. They describe typical conditions, not a forecast. Read how the climatology is built.