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Weather in Ward 17, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.5 °C, 10 mm of rain; a normal November has 88 mm. Coldest night 15.2 °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 | 22.6 | 16.8 | 3.8 |
| 2 | 18.0 | 15.6 | 5.1 |
| 3 | 22.2 | 15.2 | 1.3 |
| 4 | 24.6 | 17.2 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 33.5 | 17.0 | 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 | 43 mm, normal 88 mm |
| December | 78 mm, normal 93 mm |
| January | 38 mm, normal 94 mm |
| February | 135 mm, normal 94 mm |
| March | 56 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 55 mm, normal 79 mm |
| May | 78 mm, normal 27 mm |
| June | 89 mm, normal 26 mm |
| July | 81 mm, normal 29 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 41 mm |
| September | 147 mm, normal 54 mm |
| October | 84 mm, normal 77 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 742 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 622 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 718 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 705 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 773 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 844 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 798 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 944 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 800 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,057 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 852 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 884 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 647 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 844 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 741 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,083 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 636 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 763 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 625 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 772 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,085 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 914 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 689 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,051 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 893 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 636 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 806 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 571 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 616 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 784 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 710 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 792 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 897 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 819 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 739 mm (-7% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2011 (1,085 mm). Driest: 2018 (571 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.0 °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 | 94 | 94 | 94 | 79 | 27 | 26 | 29 | 41 | 54 | 77 | 88 | 93 |
| Mean °C | 21.7 | 22.0 | 20.9 | 18.7 | 16.9 | 14.8 | 14.5 | 15.1 | 16.2 | 17.5 | 18.8 | 20.5 |
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.