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Weather in Ward 1, Phumelela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 27.7 °C, 69 mm of rain; a normal November has 162 mm. Coldest night 12.2 °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 | 25.2 | 13.2 | 10.8 |
| 2 | 23.7 | 13.4 | 26.4 |
| 3 | 25.8 | 12.2 | 7.6 |
| 4 | 27.2 | 13.4 | 0.8 |
| 5 | 27.7 | 16.0 | 23.3 |
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 | 293 mm, normal 162 mm |
| December | 250 mm, normal 218 mm |
| January | 158 mm, normal 199 mm |
| February | 95 mm, normal 138 mm |
| March | 166 mm, normal 122 mm |
| April | 67 mm, normal 60 mm |
| May | 33 mm, normal 22 mm |
| June | 15 mm, normal 12 mm |
| July | 8.6 mm, normal 13 mm |
| August | 54 mm, normal 27 mm |
| September | 128 mm, normal 43 mm |
| October | 17 mm, normal 121 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,229 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 1,024 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 1,240 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 1,090 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,267 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,388 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,394 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,254 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,113 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,354 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,082 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,083 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 924 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,205 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 1,314 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,502 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 776 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 964 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,254 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,229 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,025 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,122 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,073 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,087 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 866 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 1,155 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 1,141 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 898 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 888 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,121 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,233 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 967 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,058 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 1,005 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,665 mm (+47% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,665 mm). Driest: 2007 (776 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 32.0 °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 | 199 | 138 | 122 | 60 | 22 | 12 | 13 | 27 | 43 | 121 | 162 | 218 |
| Mean °C | 17.3 | 17.2 | 15.9 | 13.2 | 10.4 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 10.2 | 13.8 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 17.0 |
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.