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Weather in Ward 7, Phumelela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.8 °C, 20 mm of rain; a normal November has 113 mm. Coldest night 14.0 °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 22 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 | 28.5 | 14.7 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 26.4 | 15.0 | 2.7 |
| 3 | 28.5 | 14.0 | 3.3 |
| 4 | 28.8 | 14.5 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 29.8 | 16.7 | 12.6 |
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 | 285 mm, normal 113 mm |
| December | 148 mm, normal 156 mm |
| January | 100 mm, normal 136 mm |
| February | 95 mm, normal 98 mm |
| March | 157 mm, normal 85 mm |
| April | 81 mm, normal 47 mm |
| May | 38 mm, normal 18 mm |
| June | 15 mm, normal 11 mm |
| July | 3.4 mm, normal 7.5 mm |
| August | 36 mm, normal 19 mm |
| September | 116 mm, normal 26 mm |
| October | 12 mm, normal 93 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 887 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 620 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 918 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 793 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,012 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,188 mm (+47% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,010 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 854 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 807 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,097 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 784 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 797 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 671 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 826 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 892 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,029 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 639 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 579 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 814 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 827 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 736 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 733 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 778 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 696 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 545 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 830 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 744 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 627 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 623 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 877 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,009 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 677 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 731 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 678 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,329 mm (+65% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,329 mm). Driest: 2015 (545 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 34.1 °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 | 136 | 98 | 85 | 47 | 18 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 26 | 93 | 113 | 156 |
| Mean °C | 19.0 | 18.8 | 17.4 | 14.5 | 11.3 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 11.1 | 15.2 | 16.8 | 17.6 | 18.6 |
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.