Climate averages 1991–2020
Hobart weather
in September.
A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a cool month in Hobart: daytime highs average 14.1°C and nights cool to about 6.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 53 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes September a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 46 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Launceston (161 km away). In September its highs average 14.0°C, about as warm as Hobart, with 76 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Hobart ranks 30th of 32 for the warmest September highs and joint 20th of 32 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 32 cities is 20.0°C; Hobart is 5.9°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 16.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 53 mm to 55 mm.
The annual picture
September 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 | 12.3°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 58 | 11.6 | 10.410 h |
| September, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Launceston in SeptemberAustralia · 161 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 4.8°C · 76 mm rain
- Geelong in SeptemberAustralia · 583 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 8.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Melbourne in SeptemberAustralia · 598 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 7.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Ballarat in SeptemberAustralia · 660 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 5.4°C · 69 mm rain
- Bendigo in SeptemberAustralia · 729 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 6.6°C · 52 mm rain
- Sydney in SeptemberAustralia · 1057 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 11.5°C · 50 mm rain
- Adelaide in SeptemberAustralia · 1162 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 9.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Newcastle, Australia in SeptemberAustralia · 1173 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 12.8°C · 53 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.