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Hobart in December

goodbusy · a good time to go

The year in Hobart

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  1. Hobart in January: good, busy
  2. Hobart in February: sweet spot, busy
  3. Hobart in March: good
  4. Hobart in April: good
  5. Hobart in May: ok
  6. Hobart in June: ok
  7. Hobart in July: ok
  8. Hobart in August: ok
  9. Hobart in September: good
  10. Hobart in October: sweet spot
  11. Hobart in November: sweet spot
  12. Hobart in December: good, busy
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December at Hobart is 20°C by day and 10°C at night, with 8 rainy days and about 11 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high20°C
Nightly low10°C
Feels like, afternoon19°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more8 · 70 mm
Humidity68%
Sunshine11.3 h/day
Daylight15.3 h/day
Days over 35°C0
Crowds45 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the centre, 17 km from the airport (HBA): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: busy. Busiest from December to February; quietest in May and September.

Public holidays in December

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Hobart in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 10°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 8 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type I plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Australian dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Australia: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Hobart: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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