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Weather in Ward 49, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 35.1 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 90 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 13.6 °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 | 21.7 | 15.6 | 4.7 |
| 2 | 17.4 | 14.9 | 4.5 |
| 3 | 22.4 | 13.6 | 1.6 |
| 4 | 24.4 | 16.8 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 35.1 | 16.2 | 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 90 mm |
| December | 79 mm, normal 97 mm |
| January | 42 mm, normal 98 mm |
| February | 143 mm, normal 96 mm |
| March | 64 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 63 mm, normal 76 mm |
| May | 87 mm, normal 27 mm |
| June | 85 mm, normal 25 mm |
| July | 83 mm, normal 28 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 43 mm |
| September | 149 mm, normal 54 mm |
| October | 86 mm, normal 77 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 779 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 629 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 731 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 728 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 793 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 828 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 769 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 962 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 787 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,018 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 919 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 921 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 660 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 876 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 763 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,093 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 663 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 788 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 650 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 793 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,081 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 914 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 686 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,021 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 908 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 636 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 834 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 585 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 571 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 820 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 759 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 794 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 902 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 809 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 746 mm (-8% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2006 (1,093 mm). Driest: 2019 (571 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.9 °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 | 98 | 96 | 94 | 76 | 27 | 25 | 28 | 43 | 54 | 77 | 90 | 97 |
| Mean °C | 21.1 | 21.4 | 20.2 | 17.8 | 15.8 | 13.4 | 13.2 | 14.1 | 15.5 | 16.9 | 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.