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Weather in Ward 12, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.3 °C, 10 mm of rain; a normal November has 87 mm. Coldest night 15.5 °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 | 17.3 | 3.6 |
| 2 | 18.3 | 15.9 | 5.3 |
| 3 | 22.3 | 15.5 | 1.1 |
| 4 | 24.4 | 17.5 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 32.3 | 17.8 | 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 87 mm |
| December | 77 mm, normal 91 mm |
| January | 36 mm, normal 91 mm |
| February | 133 mm, normal 93 mm |
| March | 57 mm, normal 93 mm |
| April | 54 mm, normal 79 mm |
| May | 80 mm, normal 28 mm |
| June | 95 mm, normal 26 mm |
| July | 82 mm, normal 30 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 41 mm |
| September | 145 mm, normal 53 mm |
| October | 82 mm, normal 76 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 721 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 613 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 708 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 694 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 763 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 846 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 801 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 924 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 795 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,063 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 829 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 870 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 646 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 822 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 732 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,069 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 624 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 748 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 611 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 754 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,075 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 907 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 687 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,053 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 884 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 633 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 789 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 561 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 620 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 786 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 697 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 809 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 905 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 826 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 750 mm (-5% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2011 (1,075 mm). Driest: 2018 (561 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.6 °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 | 91 | 93 | 93 | 79 | 28 | 26 | 30 | 41 | 53 | 76 | 87 | 91 |
| Mean °C | 21.9 | 22.2 | 21.2 | 19.1 | 17.4 | 15.5 | 15.1 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 17.7 | 19.0 | 20.7 |
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.