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Weather in Polokwane

This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.6 °C, 7.4 mm of rain; a normal November has 87 mm. Coldest night 15.7 °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 57 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	33.6	16.7	0.0
2	24.1	17.1	3.9
3	31.3	15.7	2.9
4	31.2	18.4	0.5
5	31.2	19.7	0.1

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	120 mm, normal 87 mm
December	94 mm, normal 112 mm
January	340 mm, normal 107 mm
February	35 mm, normal 80 mm
March	228 mm, normal 64 mm
April	87 mm, normal 33 mm
May	9.1 mm, normal 10 mm
June	3.9 mm, normal 4.4 mm
July	0.2 mm, normal 3.8 mm
August	23 mm, normal 4.0 mm
September	40 mm, normal 13 mm
October	6.5 mm, normal 38 mm

Every year since 1950

19502025

Rain each year, 1950 to 2025. Up: wetter than the 1991 to 2020 normal (556 mm a year). Down: drier.

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Rain each year, 1950 to 2025.: every figure
When or what	Figure
1950	847 mm (+52% on the normal)
1951	142 mm (-74% on the normal)
1952	379 mm (-32% on the normal)
1953	323 mm (-42% on the normal)
1954	401 mm (-28% on the normal)
1955	692 mm (+24% on the normal)
1956	604 mm (+9% on the normal)
1957	753 mm (+35% on the normal)
1958	846 mm (+52% on the normal)
1959	352 mm (-37% on the normal)
1960	490 mm (-12% on the normal)
1961	401 mm (-28% on the normal)
1962	503 mm (-10% on the normal)
1963	403 mm (-28% on the normal)
1964	492 mm (-12% on the normal)
1965	348 mm (-37% on the normal)
1966	655 mm (+18% on the normal)
1967	699 mm (+26% on the normal)
1968	491 mm (-12% on the normal)
1969	604 mm (+9% on the normal)
1970	491 mm (-12% on the normal)
1971	642 mm (+15% on the normal)
1972	618 mm (+11% on the normal)
1973	625 mm (+12% on the normal)
1974	578 mm (+4% on the normal)
1975	732 mm (+32% on the normal)
1976	614 mm (+10% on the normal)
1977	690 mm (+24% on the normal)
1978	591 mm (+6% on the normal)
1979	585 mm (+5% on the normal)
1980	618 mm (+11% on the normal)
1981	612 mm (+10% on the normal)
1982	421 mm (-24% on the normal)
1983	501 mm (-10% on the normal)
1984	533 mm (-4% on the normal)
1985	557 mm (+0% on the normal)
1986	523 mm (-6% on the normal)
1987	577 mm (+4% on the normal)
1988	447 mm (-20% on the normal)
1989	470 mm (-15% on the normal)
1990	506 mm (-9% on the normal)
1991	461 mm (-17% on the normal)
1992	376 mm (-32% on the normal)
1993	398 mm (-28% on the normal)
1994	363 mm (-35% on the normal)
1995	492 mm (-12% on the normal)
1996	740 mm (+33% on the normal)
1997	510 mm (-8% on the normal)
1998	676 mm (+22% on the normal)
1999	666 mm (+20% on the normal)
2000	904 mm (+63% on the normal)
2001	579 mm (+4% on the normal)
2002	335 mm (-40% on the normal)
2003	434 mm (-22% on the normal)
2004	590 mm (+6% on the normal)
2005	370 mm (-33% on the normal)
2006	748 mm (+35% on the normal)
2007	634 mm (+14% on the normal)
2008	648 mm (+17% on the normal)
2009	657 mm (+18% on the normal)
2010	667 mm (+20% on the normal)
2011	694 mm (+25% on the normal)
2012	445 mm (-20% on the normal)
2013	634 mm (+14% on the normal)
2014	840 mm (+51% on the normal)
2015	432 mm (-22% on the normal)
2016	489 mm (-12% on the normal)
2017	527 mm (-5% on the normal)
2018	396 mm (-29% on the normal)
2019	442 mm (-21% on the normal)
2020	535 mm (-4% on the normal)
2021	617 mm (+11% on the normal)
2022	449 mm (-19% on the normal)
2023	578 mm (+4% on the normal)
2024	437 mm (-21% on the normal)
2025	775 mm (+39% on the normal)

Wettest: 2000 (904 mm). Driest: 1951 (142 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.2 °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	107	80	64	33	10	4	4	4	13	38	87	112
Mean °C	21.7	21.6	20.5	18.1	15.6	13.0	12.6	15.3	18.7	20.2	20.8	21.5

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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.