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Weather in Ward 25, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 35.2 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 89 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 13.7 °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 3 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 | 21.7 | 15.6 | 4.8 |
| 2 | 17.4 | 14.9 | 4.3 |
| 3 | 22.5 | 13.7 | 1.6 |
| 4 | 24.4 | 16.8 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 35.2 | 16.2 | 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 | 43 mm, normal 89 mm |
| December | 78 mm, normal 96 mm |
| January | 41 mm, normal 97 mm |
| February | 142 mm, normal 95 mm |
| March | 63 mm, normal 93 mm |
| April | 63 mm, normal 75 mm |
| May | 87 mm, normal 27 mm |
| June | 84 mm, normal 25 mm |
| July | 82 mm, normal 28 mm |
| August | 37 mm, normal 43 mm |
| September | 148 mm, normal 54 mm |
| October | 85 mm, normal 76 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 768 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 624 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 722 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 722 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 787 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 821 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 759 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 945 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 781 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,011 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 913 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 911 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 659 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 861 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 757 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,080 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 657 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 775 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 640 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 781 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,065 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 901 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 680 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,009 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 900 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 631 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 825 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 577 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 559 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 811 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 753 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 789 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 890 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 802 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 738 mm (-7% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2006 (1,080 mm). Driest: 2019 (559 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.9 °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 | 97 | 95 | 93 | 75 | 27 | 25 | 28 | 43 | 54 | 76 | 89 | 96 |
| Mean °C | 21.2 | 21.4 | 20.3 | 17.9 | 15.8 | 13.4 | 13.2 | 14.1 | 15.5 | 16.9 | 18.2 | 20.0 |
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.