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Weather in Ward 27, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.9 °C, 16 mm of rain; a normal November has 91 mm. Coldest night 16.0 °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 | 18.3 | 5.0 |
| 2 | 18.6 | 16.2 | 9.5 |
| 3 | 22.2 | 16.0 | 0.9 |
| 4 | 24.0 | 18.5 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 29.9 | 19.1 | 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 91 mm |
| December | 82 mm, normal 93 mm |
| January | 33 mm, normal 93 mm |
| February | 140 mm, normal 93 mm |
| March | 53 mm, normal 96 mm |
| April | 62 mm, normal 86 mm |
| May | 100 mm, normal 33 mm |
| June | 96 mm, normal 31 mm |
| July | 83 mm, normal 35 mm |
| August | 37 mm, normal 46 mm |
| September | 147 mm, normal 59 mm |
| October | 82 mm, normal 82 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 744 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 651 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 748 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 699 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 807 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 904 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 887 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 995 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 830 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,151 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 849 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 918 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 677 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 824 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 780 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,154 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 666 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 783 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 647 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 795 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,162 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 965 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 771 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,072 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 908 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 672 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 859 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 608 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 715 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 906 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 799 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 956 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,012 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 943 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 885 mm (+6% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2011 (1,162 mm). Driest: 2018 (608 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.2 °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 | 93 | 93 | 96 | 86 | 33 | 31 | 35 | 46 | 59 | 82 | 91 | 93 |
| Mean °C | 22.4 | 22.8 | 21.9 | 20.1 | 18.6 | 16.9 | 16.4 | 16.6 | 17.3 | 18.3 | 19.6 | 21.2 |
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.