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Weather in Ward 20, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.4 °C, 10 mm of rain; a normal November has 84 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 | 22.5 | 17.2 | 3.8 |
| 2 | 18.3 | 15.9 | 4.9 |
| 3 | 22.3 | 15.5 | 1.3 |
| 4 | 24.1 | 17.7 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 32.4 | 18.0 | 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 | 42 mm, normal 84 mm |
| December | 74 mm, normal 86 mm |
| January | 33 mm, normal 86 mm |
| February | 124 mm, normal 88 mm |
| March | 53 mm, normal 89 mm |
| April | 51 mm, normal 76 mm |
| May | 83 mm, normal 27 mm |
| June | 95 mm, normal 26 mm |
| July | 79 mm, normal 30 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 42 mm |
| September | 140 mm, normal 52 mm |
| October | 82 mm, normal 72 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 688 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 587 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 680 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 681 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 738 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 809 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 759 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 870 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 761 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,032 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 814 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 851 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 652 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 776 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 713 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,035 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 603 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 724 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 577 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 713 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,017 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 859 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 673 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,022 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 877 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 623 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 774 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 527 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 564 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 741 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 665 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 778 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 844 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 779 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 700 mm (-8% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2006 (1,035 mm). Driest: 2018 (527 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.4 °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 | 86 | 88 | 89 | 76 | 27 | 26 | 30 | 42 | 52 | 72 | 84 | 86 |
| Mean °C | 21.8 | 22.2 | 21.2 | 19.1 | 17.3 | 15.3 | 14.9 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 17.6 | 18.9 | 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.