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Weather in Moses Kotane

This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 35.8 °C, 3.4 mm of rain; a normal November has 81 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 18.4 °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 66 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	34.6	20.1	0.1
2	32.6	21.9	2.1
3	33.4	18.4	0.2
4	34.3	20.7	0.1
5	35.8	22.2	0.9

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.

Show the numbers

Rain each month, November 2025 to October 2026 (this month to 5 November 2026).: every figure
When or what	Figure
November	114 mm, normal 81 mm
December	141 mm, normal 113 mm
January	60 mm, normal 104 mm
February	58 mm, normal 95 mm
March	186 mm, normal 79 mm
April	93 mm, normal 40 mm
May	48 mm, normal 18 mm
June	10 mm, normal 7.5 mm
July	0.0 mm, normal 3.1 mm
August	8.4 mm, normal 5.0 mm
September	58 mm, normal 14 mm
October	4.0 mm, normal 43 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	1,205 mm (+100% on the normal)
1951	57 mm (-91% on the normal)
1952	131 mm (-78% on the normal)
1953	284 mm (-53% on the normal)
1954	299 mm (-50% on the normal)
1955	791 mm (+31% on the normal)
1956	594 mm (-1% on the normal)
1957	863 mm (+43% on the normal)
1958	1,222 mm (+103% on the normal)
1959	354 mm (-41% on the normal)
1960	411 mm (-32% on the normal)
1961	421 mm (-30% on the normal)
1962	800 mm (+33% on the normal)
1963	580 mm (-4% on the normal)
1964	595 mm (-1% on the normal)
1965	225 mm (-63% on the normal)
1966	563 mm (-7% on the normal)
1967	743 mm (+23% on the normal)
1968	430 mm (-29% on the normal)
1969	611 mm (+1% on the normal)
1970	606 mm (+1% on the normal)
1971	778 mm (+29% on the normal)
1972	801 mm (+33% on the normal)
1973	842 mm (+40% on the normal)
1974	712 mm (+18% on the normal)
1975	840 mm (+39% on the normal)
1976	827 mm (+37% on the normal)
1977	853 mm (+42% on the normal)
1978	690 mm (+14% on the normal)
1979	656 mm (+9% on the normal)
1980	620 mm (+3% on the normal)
1981	782 mm (+30% on the normal)
1982	588 mm (-2% on the normal)
1983	566 mm (-6% on the normal)
1984	438 mm (-27% on the normal)
1985	714 mm (+18% on the normal)
1986	587 mm (-3% on the normal)
1987	621 mm (+3% on the normal)
1988	771 mm (+28% on the normal)
1989	679 mm (+13% on the normal)
1990	507 mm (-16% on the normal)
1991	635 mm (+5% on the normal)
1992	377 mm (-37% on the normal)
1993	494 mm (-18% on the normal)
1994	422 mm (-30% on the normal)
1995	778 mm (+29% on the normal)
1996	777 mm (+29% on the normal)
1997	808 mm (+34% on the normal)
1998	619 mm (+3% on the normal)
1999	577 mm (-4% on the normal)
2000	1,099 mm (+82% on the normal)
2001	822 mm (+36% on the normal)
2002	394 mm (-35% on the normal)
2003	402 mm (-33% on the normal)
2004	746 mm (+24% on the normal)
2005	555 mm (-8% on the normal)
2006	779 mm (+29% on the normal)
2007	439 mm (-27% on the normal)
2008	593 mm (-2% on the normal)
2009	680 mm (+13% on the normal)
2010	685 mm (+14% on the normal)
2011	713 mm (+18% on the normal)
2012	512 mm (-15% on the normal)
2013	410 mm (-32% on the normal)
2014	700 mm (+16% on the normal)
2015	282 mm (-53% on the normal)
2016	568 mm (-6% on the normal)
2017	708 mm (+17% on the normal)
2018	478 mm (-21% on the normal)
2019	494 mm (-18% on the normal)
2020	539 mm (-11% on the normal)
2021	766 mm (+27% on the normal)
2022	548 mm (-9% on the normal)
2023	452 mm (-25% on the normal)
2024	302 mm (-50% on the normal)
2025	1,042 mm (+73% on the normal)

Wettest: 1958 (1,222 mm). Driest: 1951 (57 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.2 °C in December 2024.

A normal year here (1991 to 2020)

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Rain mm	104	95	79	40	18	8	3	5	14	43	81	113
Mean °C	24.3	24.0	22.4	19.4	16.1	13.1	12.9	16.2	20.7	23.0	23.5	24.1

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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.