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Weather in Ward 38, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 35.6 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 103 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 12.2 °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 | 20.2 | 14.0 | 6.2 |
| 2 | 16.7 | 13.7 | 3.6 |
| 3 | 22.3 | 12.2 | 1.0 |
| 4 | 24.8 | 15.9 | 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 | 49 mm, normal 103 mm |
| December | 86 mm, normal 118 mm |
| January | 50 mm, normal 119 mm |
| February | 172 mm, normal 114 mm |
| March | 88 mm, normal 109 mm |
| April | 80 mm, normal 82 mm |
| May | 89 mm, normal 30 mm |
| June | 80 mm, normal 27 mm |
| July | 88 mm, normal 29 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 44 mm |
| September | 160 mm, normal 56 mm |
| October | 83 mm, normal 88 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 957 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 721 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 854 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 806 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 940 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 980 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 868 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,093 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 892 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,100 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,120 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,074 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 740 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,047 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 903 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,149 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 782 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 879 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 787 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 921 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,217 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,056 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 746 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,046 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 951 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 687 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 883 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 720 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 651 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 968 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 884 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 883 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,032 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 888 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 871 mm (-5% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2011 (1,217 mm). Driest: 2019 (651 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.3 °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 | 119 | 114 | 109 | 82 | 30 | 27 | 29 | 44 | 56 | 88 | 103 | 118 |
| Mean °C | 20.2 | 20.3 | 19.2 | 16.8 | 14.7 | 12.4 | 12.2 | 13.1 | 14.6 | 15.9 | 17.2 | 19.0 |
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.