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Weather in Ward 44, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 35.4 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 89 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 13.5 °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 | 21.6 | 15.5 | 4.9 |
| 2 | 17.3 | 14.8 | 4.2 |
| 3 | 22.5 | 13.5 | 1.6 |
| 4 | 24.5 | 16.8 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 35.4 | 16.1 | 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 89 mm |
| December | 78 mm, normal 97 mm |
| January | 42 mm, normal 98 mm |
| February | 144 mm, normal 96 mm |
| March | 64 mm, normal 93 mm |
| April | 64 mm, normal 75 mm |
| May | 87 mm, normal 27 mm |
| June | 83 mm, normal 25 mm |
| July | 82 mm, normal 28 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 43 mm |
| September | 148 mm, normal 53 mm |
| October | 85 mm, normal 77 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 776 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 629 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 726 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 726 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 795 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 829 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 762 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 949 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 783 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,009 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 924 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 918 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 661 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 869 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 764 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,078 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 663 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 775 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 647 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 786 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,070 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 907 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 679 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,004 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 898 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 630 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 822 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 583 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 560 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 819 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 762 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 793 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 896 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 806 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 745 mm (-7% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2006 (1,078 mm). Driest: 2019 (560 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.8 °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 | 98 | 96 | 93 | 75 | 27 | 25 | 28 | 43 | 53 | 77 | 89 | 97 |
| Mean °C | 21.1 | 21.4 | 20.2 | 17.8 | 15.7 | 13.3 | 13.1 | 14.0 | 15.5 | 16.8 | 18.2 | 20.0 |
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.