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Weather in Ward 48, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.0 °C, 10 mm of rain; a normal November has 88 mm. Coldest night 15.0 °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 | 22.5 | 16.6 | 3.8 |
| 2 | 17.9 | 15.5 | 4.9 |
| 3 | 22.3 | 15.0 | 1.5 |
| 4 | 24.7 | 17.2 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 34.0 | 16.7 | 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 | 42 mm, normal 88 mm |
| December | 78 mm, normal 94 mm |
| January | 38 mm, normal 94 mm |
| February | 135 mm, normal 94 mm |
| March | 55 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 56 mm, normal 78 mm |
| May | 78 mm, normal 27 mm |
| June | 87 mm, normal 26 mm |
| July | 80 mm, normal 29 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 42 mm |
| September | 147 mm, normal 54 mm |
| October | 84 mm, normal 77 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 747 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 621 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 719 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 709 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 774 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 839 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 790 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 945 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 796 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,049 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 862 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 889 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 649 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 848 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 744 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,084 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 640 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 767 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 628 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 773 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,082 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 911 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 687 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,046 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 896 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 636 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 810 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 571 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 606 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 775 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 711 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 778 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 883 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 807 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 725 mm (-9% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2006 (1,084 mm). Driest: 2018 (571 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.2 °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 | 94 | 94 | 94 | 78 | 27 | 26 | 29 | 42 | 54 | 77 | 88 | 94 |
| Mean °C | 21.5 | 21.8 | 20.8 | 18.5 | 16.6 | 14.5 | 14.2 | 14.8 | 16.0 | 17.3 | 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.