Climate averages 1991–2020
Hobart weather
in May.
A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a cool month in Hobart: daytime highs average 14.1°C and nights cool to about 7.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 44 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 43 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Launceston (161 km away). In May its highs average 14.0°C, about as warm as Hobart, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Hobart ranks 29th of 32 for the warmest May highs and joint 11th of 32 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 32 cities is 19.5°C; Hobart is 5.4°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.1°C to 12.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 44 mm to 46 mm.
The annual picture
May 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, selected | 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 | 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
May in nearby cities
- Launceston in MayAustralia · 161 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 5.8°C · 60 mm rain
- Geelong in MayAustralia · 583 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 9.6°C · 32 mm rain
- Melbourne in MayAustralia · 598 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 9.1°C · 43 mm rain
- Ballarat in MayAustralia · 660 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 6.9°C · 45 mm rain
- Bendigo in MayAustralia · 729 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 7.9°C · 39 mm rain
- Sydney in MayAustralia · 1057 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 12.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Adelaide in MayAustralia · 1162 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 11.0°C · 52 mm rain
- Newcastle, Australia in MayAustralia · 1173 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 13.8°C · 94 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.