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Weather in Ward 16, Maluti a Phofung
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 25.4 °C, 39 mm of rain; a normal November has 162 mm. Coldest night 11.4 °C on 4 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 shares it with 16 neighbouring wards. It lies in one grid cell, and 4 of them get exactly the same figures.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23.4 | 11.6 | 4.1 |
| 2 | 21.3 | 11.5 | 6.9 |
| 3 | 22.8 | 12.7 | 9.4 |
| 4 | 25.4 | 11.4 | 0.3 |
| 5 | 23.9 | 14.3 | 17.8 |
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 | 254 mm, normal 162 mm |
| December | 204 mm, normal 218 mm |
| January | 208 mm, normal 251 mm |
| February | 240 mm, normal 191 mm |
| March | 210 mm, normal 134 mm |
| April | 127 mm, normal 69 mm |
| May | 57 mm, normal 29 mm |
| June | 25 mm, normal 16 mm |
| July | 20 mm, normal 14 mm |
| August | 32 mm, normal 36 mm |
| September | 188 mm, normal 42 mm |
| October | 41 mm, normal 129 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,325 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 1,042 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 1,481 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 1,252 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,402 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,857 mm (+44% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,669 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,187 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,422 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,455 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,310 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,201 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 1,022 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,385 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 1,412 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,692 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 1,162 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 1,065 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,233 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,227 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,128 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,388 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,249 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,262 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 895 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 1,502 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 1,092 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 965 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 1,073 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,405 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,470 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 1,199 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,301 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 1,227 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,708 mm (+32% on the normal) |
Wettest: 1996 (1,857 mm). Driest: 2015 (895 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 30.3 °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 | 251 | 191 | 134 | 69 | 29 | 16 | 14 | 36 | 42 | 129 | 162 | 218 |
| Mean °C | 16.4 | 16.2 | 14.7 | 11.7 | 8.4 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 7.8 | 11.7 | 13.5 | 14.6 | 15.9 |
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.