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Weather in City of Cape Town

This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 26.8 °C, 1.7 mm of rain; a normal November has 34 mm. Coldest night 13.6 °C on 3 November 2026.

Modelled estimates from a weather reanalysis, averaged over the whole place: not readings from a weather station, and not a forecast. Weather here is averaged over a 9 km grid: the 30 grid cells the municipality overlaps, each weighted by its area in it.

November so far, day by day

Nov	High °C	Low °C	Rain mm
1	20.8	15.8	0.1
2	21.5	14.1	0.1
3	24.2	13.6	0.0
4	26.8	15.0	0.0
5	21.4	14.7	1.5

Highs and lows are for the South African day; rain is for the day to 02:00 the next morning (the weather model’s day ends at midnight UTC). The weather model runs about five days behind the weather, so the newest day here is usually five to twelve days ago. Only whole days are shown.

The last twelve months against normal

Rain each month, November 2025 to October 2026 (this month to 5 November 2026). Bars: rain. Lines: the 1991 to 2020 normal.

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Rain each month, November 2025 to October 2026 (this month to 5 November 2026).: every figure
When or what	Figure
November	2.4 mm, normal 34 mm
December	8.9 mm, normal 20 mm
January	6.7 mm, normal 18 mm
February	30 mm, normal 16 mm
March	12 mm, normal 18 mm
April	111 mm, normal 45 mm
May	156 mm, normal 70 mm
June	60 mm, normal 107 mm
July	16 mm, normal 97 mm
August	18 mm, normal 86 mm
September	44 mm, normal 54 mm
October	33 mm, normal 37 mm

Every year since 1950

19502025

Rain each year, 1950 to 2025. Up: wetter than the 1991 to 2020 normal (603 mm a year). Down: drier.

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Rain each year, 1950 to 2025.: every figure
When or what	Figure
1950	476 mm (-21% on the normal)
1951	452 mm (-25% on the normal)
1952	414 mm (-31% on the normal)
1953	401 mm (-33% on the normal)
1954	532 mm (-12% on the normal)
1955	509 mm (-16% on the normal)
1956	510 mm (-15% on the normal)
1957	586 mm (-3% on the normal)
1958	460 mm (-24% on the normal)
1959	405 mm (-33% on the normal)
1960	498 mm (-17% on the normal)
1961	522 mm (-13% on the normal)
1962	646 mm (+7% on the normal)
1963	532 mm (-12% on the normal)
1964	489 mm (-19% on the normal)
1965	577 mm (-4% on the normal)
1966	434 mm (-28% on the normal)
1967	416 mm (-31% on the normal)
1968	525 mm (-13% on the normal)
1969	506 mm (-16% on the normal)
1970	547 mm (-9% on the normal)
1971	440 mm (-27% on the normal)
1972	348 mm (-42% on the normal)
1973	454 mm (-25% on the normal)
1974	589 mm (-2% on the normal)
1975	552 mm (-8% on the normal)
1976	604 mm (+0% on the normal)
1977	815 mm (+35% on the normal)
1978	449 mm (-25% on the normal)
1979	538 mm (-11% on the normal)
1980	588 mm (-2% on the normal)
1981	603 mm (+0% on the normal)
1982	539 mm (-11% on the normal)
1983	709 mm (+18% on the normal)
1984	689 mm (+14% on the normal)
1985	688 mm (+14% on the normal)
1986	708 mm (+17% on the normal)
1987	724 mm (+20% on the normal)
1988	588 mm (-2% on the normal)
1989	706 mm (+17% on the normal)
1990	626 mm (+4% on the normal)
1991	720 mm (+19% on the normal)
1992	675 mm (+12% on the normal)
1993	705 mm (+17% on the normal)
1994	594 mm (-1% on the normal)
1995	566 mm (-6% on the normal)
1996	844 mm (+40% on the normal)
1997	450 mm (-25% on the normal)
1998	548 mm (-9% on the normal)
1999	537 mm (-11% on the normal)
2000	457 mm (-24% on the normal)
2001	784 mm (+30% on the normal)
2002	635 mm (+5% on the normal)
2003	489 mm (-19% on the normal)
2004	585 mm (-3% on the normal)
2005	627 mm (+4% on the normal)
2006	517 mm (-14% on the normal)
2007	716 mm (+19% on the normal)
2008	743 mm (+23% on the normal)
2009	667 mm (+11% on the normal)
2010	527 mm (-13% on the normal)
2011	536 mm (-11% on the normal)
2012	658 mm (+9% on the normal)
2013	859 mm (+43% on the normal)
2014	633 mm (+5% on the normal)
2015	442 mm (-27% on the normal)
2016	513 mm (-15% on the normal)
2017	418 mm (-31% on the normal)
2018	589 mm (-2% on the normal)
2019	481 mm (-20% on the normal)
2020	568 mm (-6% on the normal)
2021	648 mm (+8% on the normal)
2022	365 mm (-39% on the normal)
2023	689 mm (+14% on the normal)
2024	672 mm (+12% on the normal)
2025	455 mm (-24% on the normal)

Wettest: 2013 (859 mm). Driest: 1972 (348 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.5 °C in March 2026.

A normal year here (1991 to 2020)

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Rain mm	18	16	18	45	70	107	97	86	54	37	34	20
Mean °C	21.0	21.2	19.9	17.3	14.9	12.6	11.9	12.2	13.6	15.9	17.6	19.8

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Source

Modelled estimates from a weather reanalysis, averaged over the whole place: not readings from a weather station, and not a forecast. The weather model runs about five days behind the weather, so the newest day here is usually five to twelve days ago.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. Muñoz Sabater, J. (2019): ERA5-Land hourly data from 1950 to present, and ERA5-Land monthly averaged data from 1950 to present. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). DOI 10.24381/cds.e2161bac and 10.24381/cds.68d2bb30. ERA5-Land on the Climate Data Store, under CC BY 4.0.

What we changed: we cut ERA5-Land to South Africa, averaged its 9 km grid cells over each ward, municipality, district and province by the area of the place in each cell (MDB boundaries, 2026), took each day’s high and low from 16 of its hourly values, added up days into months, and averaged 1991 to 2020 for the normals.

Dataset: rainfall and temperature by ward, release of 5 November 2026. The South African Weather Service issues the official forecasts and warnings.