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Weather in Ward 21, City of Cape Town
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 28.5 °C, 1.9 mm of rain; a normal November has 37 mm. Coldest night 13.0 °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 4 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 | 21.3 | 15.8 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 22.1 | 13.9 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 25.3 | 13.0 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 28.5 | 14.8 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 22.0 | 15.2 | 1.7 |
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
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November | 2.2 mm, normal 37 mm |
| December | 10 mm, normal 22 mm |
| January | 7.5 mm, normal 19 mm |
| February | 31 mm, normal 17 mm |
| March | 14 mm, normal 19 mm |
| April | 118 mm, normal 49 mm |
| May | 190 mm, normal 78 mm |
| June | 65 mm, normal 119 mm |
| July | 14 mm, normal 107 mm |
| August | 19 mm, normal 93 mm |
| September | 44 mm, normal 60 mm |
| October | 37 mm, normal 40 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 778 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 764 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 765 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 653 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 614 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 925 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 495 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 610 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 593 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 497 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 865 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 695 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 526 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 618 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 688 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 565 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 763 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 813 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 727 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 586 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 602 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 706 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 946 mm (+43% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 703 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 465 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 570 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 453 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 652 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 531 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 630 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 705 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 406 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 761 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 749 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 494 mm (-25% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2013 (946 mm). Driest: 2022 (406 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.5 °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 | 19 | 17 | 19 | 49 | 78 | 119 | 107 | 93 | 60 | 40 | 37 | 22 |
| Mean °C | 21.4 | 21.6 | 20.2 | 17.5 | 14.8 | 12.2 | 11.6 | 11.9 | 13.5 | 16.0 | 17.8 | 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.