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Weather in Ward 8, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.8 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 83 mm. Coldest night 15.9 °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 | 22.7 | 18.2 | 3.8 |
| 2 | 18.9 | 16.4 | 6.0 |
| 3 | 22.4 | 15.9 | 0.8 |
| 4 | 23.8 | 18.5 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 29.8 | 19.2 | 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 83 mm |
| December | 73 mm, normal 84 mm |
| January | 29 mm, normal 84 mm |
| February | 121 mm, normal 88 mm |
| March | 56 mm, normal 90 mm |
| April | 49 mm, normal 80 mm |
| May | 91 mm, normal 30 mm |
| June | 106 mm, normal 29 mm |
| July | 82 mm, normal 33 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 43 mm |
| September | 135 mm, normal 54 mm |
| October | 79 mm, normal 74 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 681 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 590 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 689 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 675 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 745 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 852 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 804 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 874 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 772 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,074 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 795 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 870 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 670 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 763 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 727 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,045 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 607 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 726 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 577 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 708 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,046 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 888 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 697 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,050 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 878 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 633 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 763 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 536 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 611 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 771 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 658 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 843 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 885 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 817 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 752 mm (-2% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,074 mm). Driest: 2018 (536 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.1 °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 | 88 | 90 | 80 | 30 | 29 | 33 | 43 | 54 | 74 | 83 | 84 |
| Mean °C | 22.3 | 22.7 | 21.8 | 19.9 | 18.4 | 16.6 | 16.1 | 16.3 | 17.1 | 18.2 | 19.5 | 21.2 |
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.