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Weather in eThekwini

This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 30.3 °C, 40 mm of rain; a normal November has 108 mm. Coldest night 17.7 °C on 1 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 28 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	25.5	17.7	8.5
2	21.4	18.6	10.3
3	20.9	18.8	15.4
4	24.3	19.8	1.3
5	30.3	18.1	4.7

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	88 mm, normal 108 mm
December	122 mm, normal 110 mm
January	48 mm, normal 107 mm
February	113 mm, normal 97 mm
March	56 mm, normal 98 mm
April	46 mm, normal 74 mm
May	58 mm, normal 41 mm
June	15 mm, normal 28 mm
July	63 mm, normal 40 mm
August	44 mm, normal 37 mm
September	96 mm, normal 65 mm
October	65 mm, normal 98 mm

Every year since 1950

19502025

Rain each year, 1950 to 2025. Up: wetter than the 1991 to 2020 normal (902 mm a year). Down: drier.

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Rain each year, 1950 to 2025.: every figure
When or what	Figure
1950	434 mm (-52% on the normal)
1951	326 mm (-64% on the normal)
1952	453 mm (-50% on the normal)
1953	543 mm (-40% on the normal)
1954	1,282 mm (+42% on the normal)
1955	886 mm (-2% on the normal)
1956	959 mm (+6% on the normal)
1957	1,015 mm (+13% on the normal)
1958	957 mm (+6% on the normal)
1959	603 mm (-33% on the normal)
1960	785 mm (-13% on the normal)
1961	856 mm (-5% on the normal)
1962	860 mm (-5% on the normal)
1963	838 mm (-7% on the normal)
1964	990 mm (+10% on the normal)
1965	773 mm (-14% on the normal)
1966	721 mm (-20% on the normal)
1967	847 mm (-6% on the normal)
1968	786 mm (-13% on the normal)
1969	965 mm (+7% on the normal)
1970	924 mm (+2% on the normal)
1971	1,012 mm (+12% on the normal)
1972	876 mm (-3% on the normal)
1973	1,050 mm (+16% on the normal)
1974	1,032 mm (+14% on the normal)
1975	1,129 mm (+25% on the normal)
1976	1,100 mm (+22% on the normal)
1977	1,087 mm (+21% on the normal)
1978	915 mm (+1% on the normal)
1979	800 mm (-11% on the normal)
1980	642 mm (-29% on the normal)
1981	691 mm (-23% on the normal)
1982	674 mm (-25% on the normal)
1983	818 mm (-9% on the normal)
1984	961 mm (+7% on the normal)
1985	1,151 mm (+28% on the normal)
1986	955 mm (+6% on the normal)
1987	1,457 mm (+62% on the normal)
1988	1,081 mm (+20% on the normal)
1989	1,064 mm (+18% on the normal)
1990	1,072 mm (+19% on the normal)
1991	899 mm (-0% on the normal)
1992	602 mm (-33% on the normal)
1993	769 mm (-15% on the normal)
1994	722 mm (-20% on the normal)
1995	1,171 mm (+30% on the normal)
1996	1,085 mm (+20% on the normal)
1997	1,096 mm (+22% on the normal)
1998	811 mm (-10% on the normal)
1999	1,147 mm (+27% on the normal)
2000	1,158 mm (+28% on the normal)
2001	947 mm (+5% on the normal)
2002	847 mm (-6% on the normal)
2003	723 mm (-20% on the normal)
2004	864 mm (-4% on the normal)
2005	885 mm (-2% on the normal)
2006	1,077 mm (+19% on the normal)
2007	834 mm (-7% on the normal)
2008	743 mm (-18% on the normal)
2009	919 mm (+2% on the normal)
2010	694 mm (-23% on the normal)
2011	976 mm (+8% on the normal)
2012	1,041 mm (+15% on the normal)
2013	949 mm (+5% on the normal)
2014	688 mm (-24% on the normal)
2015	701 mm (-22% on the normal)
2016	893 mm (-1% on the normal)
2017	1,174 mm (+30% on the normal)
2018	743 mm (-18% on the normal)
2019	1,003 mm (+11% on the normal)
2020	884 mm (-2% on the normal)
2021	1,101 mm (+22% on the normal)
2022	1,169 mm (+30% on the normal)
2023	1,019 mm (+13% on the normal)
2024	822 mm (-9% on the normal)
2025	1,098 mm (+22% on the normal)

Wettest: 1987 (1,457 mm). Driest: 1951 (326 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.9 °C in January 2025.

A normal year here (1991 to 2020)

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Rain mm	107	97	98	74	41	28	40	37	65	98	108	110
Mean °C	22.6	23.0	22.1	20.0	17.9	15.7	15.2	16.5	17.9	18.8	20.1	21.7

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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.