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Weather in Ward 56, City of Cape Town
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 25.8 °C, 1.6 mm of rain; a normal November has 31 mm. Coldest night 14.0 °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 14 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 | 20.7 | 16.1 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 20.9 | 14.7 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 23.6 | 14.3 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 25.8 | 15.2 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 20.9 | 14.0 | 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 31 mm |
| December | 8.2 mm, normal 18 mm |
| January | 5.3 mm, normal 16 mm |
| February | 26 mm, normal 14 mm |
| March | 9.7 mm, normal 16 mm |
| April | 107 mm, normal 42 mm |
| May | 139 mm, normal 66 mm |
| June | 57 mm, normal 102 mm |
| July | 15 mm, normal 94 mm |
| August | 18 mm, normal 83 mm |
| September | 37 mm, normal 51 mm |
| October | 33 mm, normal 34 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 676 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 627 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 685 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 556 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 518 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 805 mm (+42% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 416 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 508 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 519 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 421 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 774 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 586 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 461 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 571 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 602 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 476 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 674 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 702 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 621 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 494 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 494 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 611 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 798 mm (+41% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 602 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 416 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 487 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 389 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 567 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 451 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 522 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 609 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 340 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 632 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 603 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 427 mm (-25% on the normal) |
Wettest: 1996 (805 mm). Driest: 2022 (340 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.4 °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 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 42 | 66 | 102 | 94 | 83 | 51 | 34 | 31 | 18 |
| Mean °C | 21.0 | 21.2 | 19.8 | 17.4 | 15.1 | 13.0 | 12.4 | 12.6 | 14.0 | 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.