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Weather in Ward 1, Senqu
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 28.5 °C, 17 mm of rain; a normal November has 118 mm. Coldest night 8.8 °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 5 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 | 23.2 | 13.9 | 2.6 |
| 2 | 24.6 | 10.3 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 26.9 | 8.8 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 27.1 | 13.5 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 28.5 | 10.2 | 14.2 |
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 | 129 mm, normal 118 mm |
| December | 197 mm, normal 146 mm |
| January | 74 mm, normal 150 mm |
| February | 307 mm, normal 132 mm |
| March | 152 mm, normal 127 mm |
| April | 159 mm, normal 84 mm |
| May | 104 mm, normal 37 mm |
| June | 34 mm, normal 24 mm |
| July | 42 mm, normal 19 mm |
| August | 19 mm, normal 31 mm |
| September | 166 mm, normal 31 mm |
| October | 47 mm, normal 91 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,291 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 611 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 1,035 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 824 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,014 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,279 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 965 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,342 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 826 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,234 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,377 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,142 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 827 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,077 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 873 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,332 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 822 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 807 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 999 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,108 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,163 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 887 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 705 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 978 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 602 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 797 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 799 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 896 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 759 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,288 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,129 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 985 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,153 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 748 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,238 mm (+25% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2001 (1,377 mm). Driest: 2015 (602 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 34.3 °C in December 2024.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 150 | 132 | 127 | 84 | 37 | 24 | 19 | 31 | 31 | 91 | 118 | 146 |
| Mean °C | 19.6 | 18.9 | 16.9 | 13.1 | 9.5 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 8.8 | 13.4 | 15.8 | 17.2 | 19.0 |
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.