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Weather in Ward 40, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 36.1 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 81 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 14.2 °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 | 22.2 | 15.8 | 4.9 |
| 2 | 17.9 | 15.1 | 4.1 |
| 3 | 23.0 | 14.2 | 1.7 |
| 4 | 24.8 | 17.1 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 36.1 | 16.5 | 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 | 39 mm, normal 81 mm |
| December | 71 mm, normal 85 mm |
| January | 38 mm, normal 86 mm |
| February | 130 mm, normal 85 mm |
| March | 47 mm, normal 82 mm |
| April | 54 mm, normal 66 mm |
| May | 83 mm, normal 24 mm |
| June | 76 mm, normal 23 mm |
| July | 74 mm, normal 27 mm |
| August | 35 mm, normal 41 mm |
| September | 133 mm, normal 50 mm |
| October | 82 mm, normal 69 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 665 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 576 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 642 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 671 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 726 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 751 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 684 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 821 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 714 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 943 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 835 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 815 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 629 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 736 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 688 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 981 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 595 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 675 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 555 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 684 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 945 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 797 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 626 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 919 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 837 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 587 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 749 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 502 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 474 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 714 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 690 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 716 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 778 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 733 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 656 mm (-9% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2006 (981 mm). Driest: 2019 (474 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.7 °C in December 2024.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 86 | 85 | 82 | 66 | 24 | 23 | 27 | 41 | 50 | 69 | 81 | 85 |
| Mean °C | 21.6 | 21.8 | 20.7 | 18.2 | 16.2 | 13.8 | 13.5 | 14.3 | 15.8 | 17.2 | 18.6 | 20.4 |
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.