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Hobart in May

ok · worth considering

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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May at Hobart is 14°C by day and 6°C at night, with 6 rainy days and about 7 hours of sun a day. 14C max, 6 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high14°C
Nightly low6°C
Feels like, afternoon12°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more6 · 51 mm
Humidity80%
Sunshine6.8 h/day
Daylight9.7 h/day
Crowds100 / 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

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

Hobart in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 6°C.
  • Humidity averages 80%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

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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