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Weather in Ward 7, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.3 °C, 12 mm of rain; a normal November has 85 mm. Coldest night 16.0 °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 | 22.8 | 18.4 | 4.0 |
| 2 | 19.0 | 16.5 | 6.8 |
| 3 | 22.4 | 16.0 | 0.7 |
| 4 | 23.7 | 18.7 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 29.3 | 19.4 | 0.1 |
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 | 44 mm, normal 85 mm |
| December | 74 mm, normal 85 mm |
| January | 28 mm, normal 84 mm |
| February | 122 mm, normal 89 mm |
| March | 56 mm, normal 91 mm |
| April | 50 mm, normal 82 mm |
| May | 95 mm, normal 31 mm |
| June | 107 mm, normal 30 mm |
| July | 82 mm, normal 34 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 45 mm |
| September | 135 mm, normal 55 mm |
| October | 79 mm, normal 76 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 694 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 604 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 702 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 681 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 758 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 874 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 830 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 899 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 787 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,100 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 805 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 891 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 682 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 770 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 742 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,069 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 624 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 741 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 589 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 723 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,073 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 908 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 719 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,061 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 889 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 643 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 781 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 552 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 638 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 793 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 675 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 873 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 906 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 839 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 778 mm (-1% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,100 mm). Driest: 2018 (552 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.9 °C in October 2025.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 84 | 89 | 91 | 82 | 31 | 30 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 76 | 85 | 85 |
| Mean °C | 22.4 | 22.8 | 22.0 | 20.1 | 18.6 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 16.5 | 17.3 | 18.3 | 19.6 | 21.3 |
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.