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Weather in Ward 1, City of Cape Town
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 28.0 °C, 1.8 mm of rain; a normal November has 34 mm. Coldest night 13.2 °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 2 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 | 21.4 | 16.0 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 21.9 | 14.2 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 25.0 | 13.2 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 28.0 | 15.1 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 21.7 | 14.8 | 1.6 |
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 | 2.1 mm, normal 34 mm |
| December | 9.2 mm, normal 20 mm |
| January | 6.5 mm, normal 17 mm |
| February | 29 mm, normal 15 mm |
| March | 12 mm, normal 17 mm |
| April | 112 mm, normal 45 mm |
| May | 164 mm, normal 71 mm |
| June | 60 mm, normal 109 mm |
| July | 14 mm, normal 99 mm |
| August | 17 mm, normal 87 mm |
| September | 41 mm, normal 55 mm |
| October | 35 mm, normal 37 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 724 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 689 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 717 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 597 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 559 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 863 mm (+42% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 445 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 553 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 553 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 457 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 812 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 637 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 490 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 590 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 641 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 515 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 709 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 752 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 666 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 538 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 549 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 655 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 866 mm (+42% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 648 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 433 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 523 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 417 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 607 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 481 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 573 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 651 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 371 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 685 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 666 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 455 mm (-25% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2013 (866 mm). Driest: 2022 (371 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.4 °C in March 2026.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 17 | 15 | 17 | 45 | 71 | 109 | 99 | 87 | 55 | 37 | 34 | 20 |
| Mean °C | 21.4 | 21.6 | 20.2 | 17.5 | 14.9 | 12.5 | 11.9 | 12.2 | 13.7 | 16.1 | 17.9 | 20.2 |
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.