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Weather in Ward 15, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 30.9 °C, 12 mm of rain; a normal November has 88 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 | 17.9 | 4.1 |
| 2 | 18.5 | 16.1 | 6.9 |
| 3 | 22.2 | 15.5 | 0.9 |
| 4 | 24.2 | 18.0 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 30.9 | 18.7 | 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 88 mm |
| December | 79 mm, normal 91 mm |
| January | 34 mm, normal 91 mm |
| February | 135 mm, normal 93 mm |
| March | 56 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 56 mm, normal 82 mm |
| May | 89 mm, normal 30 mm |
| June | 98 mm, normal 29 mm |
| July | 83 mm, normal 32 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 43 mm |
| September | 144 mm, normal 56 mm |
| October | 81 mm, normal 78 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 725 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 626 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 721 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 693 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 777 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 872 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 838 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 947 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 810 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,102 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 827 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 886 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 658 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 816 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 748 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,099 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 638 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 758 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 620 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 765 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,108 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 929 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 720 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,064 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 892 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 647 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 810 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 577 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 662 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 834 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 729 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 875 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 952 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 875 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 808 mm (+0% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2011 (1,108 mm). Driest: 2018 (577 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.4 °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 | 94 | 82 | 30 | 29 | 32 | 43 | 56 | 78 | 88 | 91 |
| Mean °C | 22.2 | 22.6 | 21.6 | 19.7 | 18.2 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 16.2 | 17.0 | 18.1 | 19.4 | 21.0 |
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.