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Weather in Ward 2, Phumelela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.2 °C, 23 mm of rain; a normal November has 122 mm. Coldest night 13.1 °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 shares it with 3 neighbouring wards. It lies in one grid cell, and 1 of them get exactly the same figures.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29.0 | 15.7 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 25.7 | 15.1 | 5.2 |
| 3 | 28.3 | 13.1 | 3.3 |
| 4 | 28.5 | 14.2 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 29.2 | 16.4 | 11.6 |
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 | 260 mm, normal 122 mm |
| December | 144 mm, normal 170 mm |
| January | 140 mm, normal 141 mm |
| February | 86 mm, normal 101 mm |
| March | 146 mm, normal 89 mm |
| April | 80 mm, normal 45 mm |
| May | 36 mm, normal 18 mm |
| June | 16 mm, normal 9.5 mm |
| July | 4.0 mm, normal 7.7 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 18 mm |
| September | 112 mm, normal 26 mm |
| October | 6.2 mm, normal 94 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 873 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 720 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 967 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 785 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,022 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,131 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,032 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 892 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 831 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,172 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 759 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 820 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 690 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 887 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 904 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,079 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 624 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 651 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 888 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 924 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 763 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 807 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 836 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 757 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 591 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 847 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 813 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 655 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 638 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 870 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,017 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 668 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 722 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 733 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,313 mm (+56% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,313 mm). Driest: 2015 (591 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 33.1 °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 | 141 | 101 | 89 | 45 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 94 | 122 | 170 |
| Mean °C | 18.4 | 18.3 | 17.0 | 14.2 | 11.2 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 11.0 | 15.0 | 16.5 | 17.1 | 18.1 |
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.