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Weather in Rustenburg

This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.1 °C, 9.7 mm of rain; a normal November has 84 mm. Coldest night 17.2 °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 40 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	34.1	19.9	0.6
2	31.3	19.9	6.6
3	31.5	17.2	1.2
4	32.7	18.8	0.6
5	33.8	19.8	0.7

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	122 mm, normal 84 mm
December	173 mm, normal 121 mm
January	89 mm, normal 105 mm
February	52 mm, normal 98 mm
March	180 mm, normal 80 mm
April	79 mm, normal 40 mm
May	45 mm, normal 19 mm
June	9.8 mm, normal 7.5 mm
July	0.1 mm, normal 3.5 mm
August	13 mm, normal 7.2 mm
September	60 mm, normal 16 mm
October	4.3 mm, normal 55 mm

Every year since 1950

19502025

Rain each year, 1950 to 2025. Up: wetter than the 1991 to 2020 normal (637 mm a year). Down: drier.

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Rain each year, 1950 to 2025.: every figure
When or what	Figure
1950	883 mm (+39% on the normal)
1951	58 mm (-91% on the normal)
1952	138 mm (-78% on the normal)
1953	263 mm (-59% on the normal)
1954	321 mm (-50% on the normal)
1955	763 mm (+20% on the normal)
1956	615 mm (-3% on the normal)
1957	851 mm (+34% on the normal)
1958	1,145 mm (+80% on the normal)
1959	436 mm (-32% on the normal)
1960	496 mm (-22% on the normal)
1961	469 mm (-26% on the normal)
1962	807 mm (+27% on the normal)
1963	623 mm (-2% on the normal)
1964	664 mm (+4% on the normal)
1965	275 mm (-57% on the normal)
1966	527 mm (-17% on the normal)
1967	741 mm (+16% on the normal)
1968	485 mm (-24% on the normal)
1969	647 mm (+2% on the normal)
1970	617 mm (-3% on the normal)
1971	790 mm (+24% on the normal)
1972	744 mm (+17% on the normal)
1973	846 mm (+33% on the normal)
1974	712 mm (+12% on the normal)
1975	806 mm (+27% on the normal)
1976	791 mm (+24% on the normal)
1977	766 mm (+20% on the normal)
1978	673 mm (+6% on the normal)
1979	682 mm (+7% on the normal)
1980	614 mm (-4% on the normal)
1981	727 mm (+14% on the normal)
1982	639 mm (+0% on the normal)
1983	587 mm (-8% on the normal)
1984	519 mm (-18% on the normal)
1985	667 mm (+5% on the normal)
1986	668 mm (+5% on the normal)
1987	692 mm (+9% on the normal)
1988	753 mm (+18% on the normal)
1989	706 mm (+11% on the normal)
1990	575 mm (-10% on the normal)
1991	674 mm (+6% on the normal)
1992	411 mm (-35% on the normal)
1993	592 mm (-7% on the normal)
1994	462 mm (-27% on the normal)
1995	796 mm (+25% on the normal)
1996	864 mm (+36% on the normal)
1997	809 mm (+27% on the normal)
1998	656 mm (+3% on the normal)
1999	571 mm (-10% on the normal)
2000	1,230 mm (+93% on the normal)
2001	769 mm (+21% on the normal)
2002	474 mm (-26% on the normal)
2003	436 mm (-32% on the normal)
2004	700 mm (+10% on the normal)
2005	560 mm (-12% on the normal)
2006	788 mm (+24% on the normal)
2007	457 mm (-28% on the normal)
2008	620 mm (-3% on the normal)
2009	692 mm (+9% on the normal)
2010	757 mm (+19% on the normal)
2011	731 mm (+15% on the normal)
2012	608 mm (-4% on the normal)
2013	459 mm (-28% on the normal)
2014	647 mm (+2% on the normal)
2015	350 mm (-45% on the normal)
2016	586 mm (-8% on the normal)
2017	680 mm (+7% on the normal)
2018	527 mm (-17% on the normal)
2019	595 mm (-7% on the normal)
2020	597 mm (-6% on the normal)
2021	767 mm (+21% on the normal)
2022	619 mm (-3% on the normal)
2023	495 mm (-22% on the normal)
2024	372 mm (-42% on the normal)
2025	1,083 mm (+70% on the normal)

Wettest: 2000 (1,230 mm). Driest: 1951 (58 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.5 °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	105	98	80	40	19	8	4	7	16	55	84	121
Mean °C	23.0	22.8	21.2	18.2	15.0	12.0	11.9	15.1	19.5	21.5	22.0	22.6

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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.