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Weather in Ward 50, Buffalo City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.1 °C, 14 mm of rain; a normal November has 92 mm. Coldest night 15.5 °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 5 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 | 22.7 | 17.7 | 4.6 |
| 2 | 18.3 | 16.0 | 8.0 |
| 3 | 22.0 | 15.5 | 0.9 |
| 4 | 24.4 | 17.8 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 31.1 | 18.4 | 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 92 mm |
| December | 85 mm, normal 95 mm |
| January | 37 mm, normal 96 mm |
| February | 144 mm, normal 95 mm |
| March | 54 mm, normal 97 mm |
| April | 61 mm, normal 84 mm |
| May | 89 mm, normal 31 mm |
| June | 89 mm, normal 29 mm |
| July | 84 mm, normal 33 mm |
| August | 37 mm, normal 43 mm |
| September | 150 mm, normal 58 mm |
| October | 81 mm, normal 82 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 748 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 651 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 747 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 698 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 806 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 884 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 871 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 999 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 830 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,131 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 852 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 895 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 652 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 844 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 772 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,149 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 657 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 778 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 654 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 804 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,159 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 961 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 753 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,063 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 896 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 666 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 858 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 609 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 708 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 888 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 795 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 908 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 998 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 919 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 863 mm (+4% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2011 (1,159 mm). Driest: 2018 (609 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.6 °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 | 96 | 95 | 97 | 84 | 31 | 29 | 33 | 43 | 58 | 82 | 92 | 95 |
| Mean °C | 22.1 | 22.5 | 21.6 | 19.6 | 18.1 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 16.1 | 17.0 | 18.0 | 19.3 | 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.