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Weather in Ward 42, City of Cape Town
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 27.3 °C, 1.9 mm of rain; a normal November has 35 mm. Coldest night 13.8 °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 | 21.0 | 16.1 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 21.5 | 14.4 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 24.5 | 13.8 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 27.3 | 15.2 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 21.4 | 14.8 | 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 35 mm |
| December | 9.5 mm, normal 21 mm |
| January | 6.7 mm, normal 18 mm |
| February | 29 mm, normal 16 mm |
| March | 12 mm, normal 18 mm |
| April | 115 mm, normal 47 mm |
| May | 165 mm, normal 73 mm |
| June | 63 mm, normal 112 mm |
| July | 16 mm, normal 102 mm |
| August | 19 mm, normal 90 mm |
| September | 40 mm, normal 57 mm |
| October | 36 mm, normal 38 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 737 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 711 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 743 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 619 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 578 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 882 mm (+41% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 466 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 572 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 567 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 469 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 828 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 651 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 508 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 610 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 659 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 529 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 735 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 768 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 684 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 551 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 558 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 672 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 892 mm (+42% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 666 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 455 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 537 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 435 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 622 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 505 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 591 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 674 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 383 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 710 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 694 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 474 mm (-24% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2013 (892 mm). Driest: 2022 (383 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.6 °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 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 47 | 73 | 112 | 102 | 90 | 57 | 38 | 35 | 21 |
| Mean °C | 21.2 | 21.4 | 20.0 | 17.5 | 15.0 | 12.7 | 12.1 | 12.3 | 13.8 | 16.1 | 17.8 | 20.0 |
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.