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Weather in Ward 3, Maluti a Phofung
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 28.5 °C, 19 mm of rain; a normal November has 117 mm. Coldest night 13.0 °C on 2 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 21 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 | 26.3 | 13.9 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 24.9 | 13.0 | 3.2 |
| 3 | 27.3 | 13.6 | 2.0 |
| 4 | 28.3 | 13.5 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 28.5 | 16.4 | 11.3 |
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 | 264 mm, normal 117 mm |
| December | 118 mm, normal 148 mm |
| January | 91 mm, normal 139 mm |
| February | 154 mm, normal 100 mm |
| March | 151 mm, normal 83 mm |
| April | 84 mm, normal 47 mm |
| May | 41 mm, normal 21 mm |
| June | 18 mm, normal 12 mm |
| July | 5.8 mm, normal 9.4 mm |
| August | 34 mm, normal 23 mm |
| September | 113 mm, normal 27 mm |
| October | 21 mm, normal 91 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 869 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 657 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 966 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 819 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 978 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,279 mm (+56% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 986 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 844 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 829 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,071 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 847 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 754 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 625 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 775 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 974 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,017 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 684 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 599 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 803 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 872 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 715 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 793 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 757 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 710 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 504 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 917 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 727 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 600 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 635 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 929 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 972 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 740 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 795 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 679 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,245 mm (+52% on the normal) |
Wettest: 1996 (1,279 mm). Driest: 2015 (504 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 33.9 °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 | 139 | 100 | 83 | 47 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 23 | 27 | 91 | 117 | 148 |
| Mean °C | 18.6 | 18.4 | 17.0 | 14.1 | 10.9 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 10.4 | 14.4 | 16.0 | 17.0 | 18.2 |
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.