About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Hobart's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.
Is that a lot? Hobart's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Australia — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.
What has actually changed
Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the
record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span
the headline and the chart use.
Freezing nights
2 fewer nights
1970s
2 / yr
→
Recent
0 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.1°F
1970s
55.4°F
→
Recent
56.5°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 more day
1970s
3 / yr
→
Recent
4 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
154 / yr
→
Recent
154 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same
Hobart's temperature, year by year
Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year
Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones.
Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope,
not a straight climb.
When in the year the change shows up
How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s.
Useful if you garden or care about a particular season —
otherwise the headline above already has the answer.
January has warmed the most — about 1.2°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.
Methodology & sources
Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Hobart (ellerslie Road), a weather station, about 1 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.