CLIMATE:

More than anywhere else in Australia, Tasmania enjoys four distinctly different seasons, each with its own special pleasures.

Tasmanians and visitors alike enjoy the State’s temperate maritime climate.

Summer is  the season of fun and festivities at the Launceston Festivale, the Hobart Summer Festival, where the Taste of Tasmania is a must, and the North-West’s athletic carnivals.

Autumn is a mellow season with calm, sunny  days.  It’s the time when the native deciduous beech blazes with colour.  Not to be outdone, the European trees are also a riot of red, orange and gold.

Winter is a dusting of snow on highland peaks and toasting your toes by an open fire.  Winter days are often crisp, clear and bracing.

Spring is cool and fresh.  Gardens around the State come to life and Tasmania celebrates with the Blooming Tasmania festival.

Rainfall varies dramatically across the State. Hobart, with an average of 626mm (24 inches) is Australia’s second-driest capital city (after Adelaide). While on the West Coast an annual average of 2400 mm (95 inches) ensures the rainforest thrives.

Hobart also boasts the most daylight hours of any capital city during summer.

Those who live in the farthest south of the eight states and territories revel in 15.2 hours of daylight at the summer solstice on 22 December. That’s two-and-a-half more hours of daylight than Darwin receives in summer and an hour more than Sydney enjoys.

The experts at the Launceston Planetarium (part of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston) say the day is even longer if twilight – the period before sunrise and after sunset when it is still light enough to carry out normal outdoor activities – is included.  Of course in winter Tasmania has less daylight than the mainland states and territories. Hobart has just over nine hours, an hour less than Sydney and two hours and 20 minutes less than Darwin. 

But that’s no reason not to come to Tassie in winter. Visitors are often surprised to find that winter is characterised by crisp blue skies and sparkling sunshine. Bring a jumper and enjoy the freshest air in the world. (But that’s another story.)

For all the latest Tasmanian weather information from the Bureau of Meterology please click here.

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