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Weather in Ward 5, Phumelela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 28.5 °C, 37 mm of rain; a normal November has 127 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 overlaps 44 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 | 26.6 | 14.1 | 5.0 |
| 2 | 24.7 | 13.6 | 9.0 |
| 3 | 26.8 | 13.1 | 6.5 |
| 4 | 27.8 | 13.7 | 0.3 |
| 5 | 28.5 | 16.2 | 16.2 |
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 | 271 mm, normal 127 mm |
| December | 176 mm, normal 171 mm |
| January | 108 mm, normal 162 mm |
| February | 109 mm, normal 117 mm |
| March | 155 mm, normal 97 mm |
| April | 69 mm, normal 51 mm |
| May | 34 mm, normal 19 mm |
| June | 15 mm, normal 11 mm |
| July | 6.6 mm, normal 10 mm |
| August | 42 mm, normal 23 mm |
| September | 116 mm, normal 32 mm |
| October | 17 mm, normal 97 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,007 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 769 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 1,023 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 911 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,052 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,261 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,128 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,004 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 914 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,175 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 904 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 879 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 716 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 944 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 1,061 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,245 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 693 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 720 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 964 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 953 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 838 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 887 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 860 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 824 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 643 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 917 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 876 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 730 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 701 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 936 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,047 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 823 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 924 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 780 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,379 mm (+50% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,379 mm). Driest: 2015 (643 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 | 162 | 117 | 97 | 51 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 23 | 32 | 97 | 127 | 171 |
| Mean °C | 18.0 | 17.8 | 16.5 | 13.7 | 10.8 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 10.5 | 14.3 | 15.7 | 16.6 | 17.6 |
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.