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Weather in Ward 3, Phumelela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.3 °C, 23 mm of rain; a normal November has 120 mm. Coldest night 13.5 °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 3 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 | 28.7 | 15.2 | 1.9 |
| 2 | 26.0 | 15.1 | 4.2 |
| 3 | 28.3 | 13.5 | 3.5 |
| 4 | 28.5 | 14.2 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 29.3 | 16.4 | 12.9 |
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 | 265 mm, normal 120 mm |
| December | 147 mm, normal 169 mm |
| January | 133 mm, normal 140 mm |
| February | 87 mm, normal 101 mm |
| March | 152 mm, normal 89 mm |
| April | 85 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 39 mm, normal 18 mm |
| June | 16 mm, normal 9.7 mm |
| July | 3.9 mm, normal 7.5 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 19 mm |
| September | 114 mm, normal 26 mm |
| October | 6.5 mm, normal 94 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 885 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 705 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 966 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 789 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,023 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,153 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,028 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 875 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 834 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,174 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 771 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 847 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 685 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 886 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 904 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,082 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 631 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 632 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 875 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 906 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 760 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 782 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 835 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 753 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 579 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 837 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 799 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 659 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 661 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 879 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,038 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 672 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 730 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 722 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,325 mm (+58% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,325 mm). Driest: 2015 (579 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 33.3 °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 | 140 | 101 | 89 | 46 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 19 | 26 | 94 | 120 | 169 |
| Mean °C | 18.5 | 18.4 | 17.0 | 14.2 | 11.2 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 11.0 | 15.0 | 16.5 | 17.2 | 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.