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Weather in Ward 40, City of Cape Town
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 25.6 °C, 2.0 mm of rain; a normal November has 37 mm. Coldest night 14.8 °C on 5 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 33 neighbouring wards. It lies in one grid cell, and 18 of them get exactly the same figures.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20.5 | 16.4 | 0.2 |
| 2 | 20.5 | 14.9 | 0.0 |
| 3 | 23.4 | 15.0 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 25.6 | 15.3 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 20.9 | 14.8 | 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 | 2.5 mm, normal 37 mm |
| December | 9.7 mm, normal 22 mm |
| January | 6.9 mm, normal 20 mm |
| February | 29 mm, normal 17 mm |
| March | 12 mm, normal 20 mm |
| April | 120 mm, normal 49 mm |
| May | 161 mm, normal 76 mm |
| June | 69 mm, normal 117 mm |
| July | 21 mm, normal 107 mm |
| August | 23 mm, normal 96 mm |
| September | 41 mm, normal 59 mm |
| October | 39 mm, normal 40 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 765 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 745 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 791 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 663 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 617 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 915 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 505 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 604 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 586 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 494 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 852 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 675 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 543 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 652 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 688 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 555 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 794 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 800 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 720 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 572 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 570 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 709 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 939 mm (+42% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 697 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 501 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 557 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 471 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 648 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 550 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 627 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 717 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 408 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 758 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 751 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 511 mm (-23% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2013 (939 mm). Driest: 2022 (408 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.0 °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 | 17 | 20 | 49 | 76 | 117 | 107 | 96 | 59 | 40 | 37 | 22 |
| Mean °C | 20.8 | 21.0 | 19.8 | 17.5 | 15.3 | 13.3 | 12.7 | 12.8 | 14.1 | 16.1 | 17.7 | 19.7 |
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.