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Weather in Ward 5, City of Cape Town
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 26.2 °C, 1.6 mm of rain; a normal November has 32 mm. Coldest night 14.1 °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 | 20.8 | 16.1 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 21.1 | 14.6 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 23.8 | 14.1 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 26.2 | 15.2 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 21.0 | 14.2 | 1.4 |
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 | 2.0 mm, normal 32 mm |
| December | 8.4 mm, normal 19 mm |
| January | 5.6 mm, normal 16 mm |
| February | 27 mm, normal 15 mm |
| March | 10 mm, normal 16 mm |
| April | 108 mm, normal 43 mm |
| May | 144 mm, normal 67 mm |
| June | 57 mm, normal 104 mm |
| July | 15 mm, normal 95 mm |
| August | 18 mm, normal 84 mm |
| September | 38 mm, normal 52 mm |
| October | 33 mm, normal 35 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 685 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 640 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 693 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 565 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 528 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 817 mm (+42% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 424 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 518 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 527 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 428 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 782 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 596 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 468 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 576 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 611 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 484 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 683 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 713 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 630 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 503 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 505 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 620 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 812 mm (+41% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 612 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 421 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 495 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 396 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 575 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 458 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 533 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 619 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 347 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 644 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 617 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 434 mm (-25% on the normal) |
Wettest: 1996 (817 mm). Driest: 2022 (347 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.7 °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 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 43 | 67 | 104 | 95 | 84 | 52 | 35 | 32 | 19 |
| Mean °C | 21.0 | 21.2 | 19.9 | 17.4 | 15.1 | 12.9 | 12.3 | 12.5 | 13.9 | 16.1 | 17.8 | 19.9 |
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.