February vs January

Best match

February is Tasmania's driest month — the ideal time for multi-day wilderness walks.

• ↑February is Tasmania's best month for the Overland Track — the 65km multi-day trek from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair, rated among the world's great wilderness walks. February's low rainfall (40mm) and maximum sunshine hours make trail conditions as reliable as they get in a Tasmanian summer.
• ↑The Wooden Boat Festival runs in even years (February, Hobart waterfront) — a celebration of maritime craft that fills Sullivan's Cove with historic vessels and draws master boatbuilders from across Australia. The combination of the working harbour, the sandstone Salamanca warehouses, and Mount Wellington behind is one of the great urban settings in the Southern Hemisphere.

Best match

Peak summer — MONA FOMA and Taste of Tasmania make January the island's finest month.

• ↑January delivers Tasmania's best weather: 22°C days, 8 hours of sunshine, and the island fully alive. MONA FOMA — the Museum of Old and New Art's summer festival — brings experimental music, performance, and art to Hobart and beyond in a format unlike any other event in Australia.
• ↑The Taste of Tasmania food festival runs across the first week of January along the Hobart waterfront, with Salamanca Place and Sullivan's Cove filled with stalls from the island's finest producers — Tasmanian salmon, oysters from Bruny Island, whisky from Lark Distillery, and pinot noir from the Coal River Valley.