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Weather in Ward 35, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 35.6 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 100 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 12.3 °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 | 20.7 | 14.5 | 5.6 |
| 2 | 16.8 | 14.1 | 3.9 |
| 3 | 22.3 | 12.3 | 1.3 |
| 4 | 24.7 | 16.2 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 35.6 | 15.9 | 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 | 48 mm, normal 100 mm |
| December | 85 mm, normal 114 mm |
| January | 50 mm, normal 115 mm |
| February | 167 mm, normal 111 mm |
| March | 83 mm, normal 106 mm |
| April | 77 mm, normal 82 mm |
| May | 91 mm, normal 29 mm |
| June | 83 mm, normal 26 mm |
| July | 89 mm, normal 29 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 44 mm |
| September | 159 mm, normal 57 mm |
| October | 86 mm, normal 86 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 920 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 702 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 830 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 794 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 900 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 940 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 851 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,087 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 865 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,073 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,067 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,052 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 707 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,029 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 870 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,161 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 756 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 871 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 766 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 905 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,208 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,040 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 732 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,064 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 949 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 672 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 883 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 693 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 647 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 944 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 862 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 867 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,023 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 886 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 854 mm (-5% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2011 (1,208 mm). Driest: 2019 (647 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.9 °C in January 2026.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 115 | 111 | 106 | 82 | 29 | 26 | 29 | 44 | 57 | 86 | 100 | 114 |
| Mean °C | 20.5 | 20.7 | 19.6 | 17.1 | 15.0 | 12.6 | 12.5 | 13.4 | 15.0 | 16.3 | 17.6 | 19.4 |
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.