Climate averages 1991–2020
Hobart weather
in August.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a cool month in Hobart: daytime highs average 12.3°C and nights cool to about 5.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 23 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Launceston (161 km away). In August its highs average 12.2°C, about as warm as Hobart, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Hobart ranks 27th of 32 for the warmest August highs and joint 25th of 32 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 32 cities is 17.6°C; Hobart is 5.3°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 14.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 58 mm to 53 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Hobart climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.8°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 48 | 7.8 | 14.915 h |
| February | 21.4°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 44 | 7.6 | 13.814 h |
| March | 19.7°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 45 | 8.1 | 12.412 h |
| April | 16.7°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 47 | 8.7 | 11.011 h |
| May | 14.1°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 44 | 9.3 | 9.710 h |
| June | 12.0°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 46 | 8.8 | 9.19 h |
| July | 11.6°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 47 | 10.5 | 9.39 h |
| August, selected | 12.3°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 58 | 11.6 | 10.410 h |
| September | 14.1°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 53 | 11.2 | 11.812 h |
| October | 16.0°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 55 | 11.2 | 13.213 h |
| November | 17.9°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 60 | 11.5 | 14.515 h |
| December | 19.8°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 58 | 9.8 | 15.315 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Launceston in AugustAustralia · 161 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.7°C · 81 mm rain
- Geelong in AugustAustralia · 583 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 7.2°C · 40 mm rain
- Melbourne in AugustAustralia · 598 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 6.8°C · 51 mm rain
- Ballarat in AugustAustralia · 660 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 4.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Bendigo in AugustAustralia · 729 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 5.2°C · 50 mm rain
- Sydney in AugustAustralia · 1057 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 9.4°C · 53 mm rain
- Adelaide in AugustAustralia · 1162 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 8.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Newcastle, Australia in AugustAustralia · 1173 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 10.8°C · 56 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Hobart) is explained once on the Hobart year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.