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Weather in Ward 18, Maluti a Phofung
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 25.5 °C, 38 mm of rain; a normal November has 161 mm. Coldest night 11.5 °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 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 | 23.5 | 11.6 | 4.0 |
| 2 | 21.5 | 11.5 | 6.7 |
| 3 | 22.9 | 12.7 | 8.9 |
| 4 | 25.5 | 11.5 | 0.3 |
| 5 | 24.0 | 14.4 | 17.7 |
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 | 252 mm, normal 161 mm |
| December | 199 mm, normal 215 mm |
| January | 204 mm, normal 247 mm |
| February | 237 mm, normal 188 mm |
| March | 208 mm, normal 132 mm |
| April | 126 mm, normal 68 mm |
| May | 57 mm, normal 29 mm |
| June | 25 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 20 mm, normal 14 mm |
| August | 32 mm, normal 36 mm |
| September | 186 mm, normal 42 mm |
| October | 40 mm, normal 128 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,304 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 1,028 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 1,464 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 1,236 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,387 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,841 mm (+44% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,642 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,175 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,401 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,440 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,293 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,188 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 1,006 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,361 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 1,397 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,666 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 1,148 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 1,047 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,220 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,213 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,113 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,369 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,232 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,241 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 879 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 1,485 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 1,078 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 950 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 1,058 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,384 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,449 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 1,180 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,280 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 1,204 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,683 mm (+32% on the normal) |
Wettest: 1996 (1,841 mm). Driest: 2015 (879 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 30.4 °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 | 247 | 188 | 132 | 68 | 29 | 15 | 14 | 36 | 42 | 128 | 161 | 215 |
| Mean °C | 16.5 | 16.3 | 14.8 | 11.8 | 8.5 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 7.9 | 11.9 | 13.6 | 14.7 | 16.0 |
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.