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Weather in Ward 72, City of Cape Town
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 23.3 °C, 1.8 mm of rain; a normal November has 33 mm. Coldest night 14.9 °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 22 neighbouring wards. It lies in one grid cell, and 9 of them get exactly the same figures.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19.4 | 16.1 | 0.2 |
| 2 | 19.2 | 15.1 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 21.8 | 15.4 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 23.3 | 15.5 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 19.7 | 14.9 | 1.5 |
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 | 2.4 mm, normal 33 mm |
| December | 8.4 mm, normal 20 mm |
| January | 5.5 mm, normal 18 mm |
| February | 26 mm, normal 16 mm |
| March | 10 mm, normal 18 mm |
| April | 113 mm, normal 45 mm |
| May | 134 mm, normal 71 mm |
| June | 64 mm, normal 110 mm |
| July | 22 mm, normal 101 mm |
| August | 23 mm, normal 91 mm |
| September | 38 mm, normal 55 mm |
| October | 36 mm, normal 37 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 725 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 678 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 745 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 613 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 572 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 852 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 471 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 553 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 548 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 455 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 811 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 623 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 505 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 625 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 643 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 515 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 755 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 753 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 676 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 527 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 515 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 663 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 863 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 646 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 473 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 517 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 435 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 601 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 511 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 564 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 661 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 370 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 691 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 672 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 473 mm (-23% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2013 (863 mm). Driest: 2022 (370 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 33.6 °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 | 45 | 71 | 110 | 101 | 91 | 55 | 37 | 33 | 20 |
| Mean °C | 20.3 | 20.5 | 19.3 | 17.1 | 15.2 | 13.3 | 12.8 | 12.8 | 14.0 | 15.8 | 17.3 | 19.3 |
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.