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Weather in Ward 8, City of Cape Town
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 28.7 °C, 1.9 mm of rain; a normal November has 40 mm. Coldest night 12.9 °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 shares it with 15 neighbouring wards. It lies in one grid cell, and 2 of them get exactly the same figures.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21.2 | 15.8 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 22.1 | 13.8 | 0.0 |
| 3 | 25.3 | 12.9 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 28.7 | 14.7 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 22.0 | 15.5 | 1.8 |
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 | 2.3 mm, normal 40 mm |
| December | 11 mm, normal 24 mm |
| January | 8.3 mm, normal 20 mm |
| February | 33 mm, normal 18 mm |
| March | 15 mm, normal 20 mm |
| April | 123 mm, normal 52 mm |
| May | 207 mm, normal 83 mm |
| June | 69 mm, normal 124 mm |
| July | 16 mm, normal 111 mm |
| August | 20 mm, normal 97 mm |
| September | 46 mm, normal 64 mm |
| October | 39 mm, normal 43 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 811 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 812 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 800 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 691 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 651 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 966 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 529 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 648 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 620 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 523 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 899 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 733 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 552 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 639 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 721 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 597 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 800 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 850 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 766 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 617 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 635 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 741 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,000 mm (+44% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 738 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 490 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 601 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 480 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 682 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 566 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 672 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 747 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 433 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 816 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 808 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 524 mm (-25% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2013 (1,000 mm). Driest: 2022 (433 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 | 20 | 18 | 20 | 52 | 83 | 124 | 111 | 97 | 64 | 43 | 40 | 24 |
| Mean °C | 21.3 | 21.6 | 20.2 | 17.5 | 14.7 | 12.1 | 11.5 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 15.9 | 17.7 | 20.1 |
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.