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Weather in Ward 42, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 30.8 °C, 9.9 mm of rain; a normal November has 82 mm. Coldest night 15.8 °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 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 | 22.6 | 17.7 | 3.6 |
| 2 | 18.7 | 16.2 | 5.1 |
| 3 | 22.3 | 15.8 | 1.0 |
| 4 | 23.8 | 18.1 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 30.8 | 18.7 | 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 82 mm |
| December | 73 mm, normal 83 mm |
| January | 31 mm, normal 83 mm |
| February | 121 mm, normal 87 mm |
| March | 56 mm, normal 88 mm |
| April | 48 mm, normal 78 mm |
| May | 86 mm, normal 28 mm |
| June | 102 mm, normal 27 mm |
| July | 81 mm, normal 31 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 42 mm |
| September | 136 mm, normal 52 mm |
| October | 80 mm, normal 72 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 669 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 576 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 673 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 671 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 730 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 821 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 768 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 849 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 757 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,041 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 790 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 846 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 656 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 756 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 710 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,020 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 591 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 711 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 564 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 693 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,012 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 861 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 672 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,031 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 867 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 621 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 749 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 519 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 574 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 743 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 645 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 802 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 855 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 787 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 715 mm (-5% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,041 mm). Driest: 2018 (519 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.3 °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 | 83 | 87 | 88 | 78 | 28 | 27 | 31 | 42 | 52 | 72 | 82 | 83 |
| Mean °C | 22.1 | 22.5 | 21.5 | 19.5 | 17.9 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 15.9 | 16.8 | 18.0 | 19.2 | 21.0 |
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.