Best Time to Visit Tasmania

November to March

Months to avoid: June to August (cold, many highland roads wet or closed, very short daylight hours)

Recommended stay: 7-10 days

Plan Tasmania for November to March. Give it 7-10 days. The window to avoid is June to August (cold, many highland roads wet or closed, very short daylight hours).

What the season gets you

• Cradle Mountain at dawn after a night in the valley: the reflections in Dove Lake are clearest before the tour buses arrive at 9am
• MONA in Hobart is one of the genuinely strange and worthwhile museums on earth, built into sandstone cliffs by a professional gambler who collects death-and-sex art
• Bay of Fires has orange lichen-covered boulders and water so clear it reads as Caribbean, except the temperature is 17 degrees and there's no one else there