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Weather in Ward 26, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.3 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 91 mm. Coldest night 14.8 °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 7 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 | 16.8 | 3.9 |
| 2 | 17.9 | 15.5 | 5.8 |
| 3 | 22.1 | 14.8 | 1.2 |
| 4 | 24.8 | 17.1 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 33.3 | 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 | 44 mm, normal 91 mm |
| December | 82 mm, normal 97 mm |
| January | 41 mm, normal 98 mm |
| February | 144 mm, normal 97 mm |
| March | 58 mm, normal 97 mm |
| April | 59 mm, normal 81 mm |
| May | 78 mm, normal 28 mm |
| June | 88 mm, normal 26 mm |
| July | 83 mm, normal 29 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 41 mm |
| September | 152 mm, normal 55 mm |
| October | 84 mm, normal 80 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 766 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 646 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 739 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 713 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 793 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 865 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 830 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 991 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 827 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,084 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 864 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 892 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 639 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 875 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 755 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,118 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 654 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 781 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 652 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 807 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,131 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 945 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 706 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,066 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 899 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 647 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 831 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 598 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 661 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 837 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 755 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 830 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 957 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 869 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 794 mm (-3% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2011 (1,131 mm). Driest: 2018 (598 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.1 °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 | 98 | 97 | 97 | 81 | 28 | 26 | 29 | 41 | 55 | 80 | 91 | 97 |
| Mean °C | 21.7 | 22.0 | 21.0 | 18.8 | 17.1 | 15.1 | 14.8 | 15.3 | 16.3 | 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.