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Weather in Ward 3, Drakenstein
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.3 °C, 2.4 mm of rain; a normal November has 40 mm. Coldest night 12.2 °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; this ward overlaps 6 grid cells, each weighted by the ward’s area in it, and its neighbours draw on some of the same cells.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23.5 | 16.2 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 25.7 | 12.6 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 28.1 | 12.2 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 32.3 | 14.0 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 24.5 | 15.4 | 2.3 |
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
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November | 4.3 mm, normal 40 mm |
| December | 9.9 mm, normal 23 mm |
| January | 6.2 mm, normal 20 mm |
| February | 21 mm, normal 16 mm |
| March | 19 mm, normal 20 mm |
| April | 124 mm, normal 55 mm |
| May | 268 mm, normal 94 mm |
| June | 81 mm, normal 147 mm |
| July | 15 mm, normal 126 mm |
| August | 15 mm, normal 111 mm |
| September | 55 mm, normal 73 mm |
| October | 41 mm, normal 45 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 945 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 943 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 823 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 766 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 724 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,081 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 594 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 718 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 669 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 601 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 978 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 816 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 577 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 649 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 773 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 690 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 897 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 998 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 890 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 691 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 715 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 807 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,132 mm (+47% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 847 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 505 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 669 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 479 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 766 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 614 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 719 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 798 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 467 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 944 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 927 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 548 mm (-29% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2013 (1,132 mm). Driest: 2022 (467 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.6 °C in February 2024.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 20 | 16 | 20 | 55 | 94 | 147 | 126 | 111 | 73 | 45 | 40 | 23 |
| Mean °C | 23.1 | 23.3 | 21.6 | 18.1 | 14.6 | 11.5 | 10.8 | 11.3 | 13.3 | 16.4 | 18.6 | 21.5 |
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.