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Weather in Ward 8, Phumelela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.0 °C, 36 mm of rain; a normal November has 130 mm. Coldest night 13.2 °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 43 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 | 28.3 | 15.8 | 4.7 |
| 2 | 25.4 | 14.8 | 11.3 |
| 3 | 27.9 | 13.2 | 5.0 |
| 4 | 28.4 | 14.3 | 0.3 |
| 5 | 29.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 |
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 130 mm |
| December | 171 mm, normal 178 mm |
| January | 139 mm, normal 154 mm |
| February | 87 mm, normal 110 mm |
| March | 148 mm, normal 95 mm |
| April | 73 mm, normal 48 mm |
| May | 33 mm, normal 18 mm |
| June | 15 mm, normal 9.8 mm |
| July | 4.9 mm, normal 9.0 mm |
| August | 42 mm, normal 20 mm |
| September | 114 mm, normal 30 mm |
| October | 9.2 mm, normal 100 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 951 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 787 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 1,020 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 850 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,061 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,180 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,115 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 983 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 890 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,198 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 835 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 853 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 741 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 948 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 977 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,168 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 651 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 716 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 978 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 986 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 831 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 883 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 880 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 830 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 647 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 907 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 897 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 705 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 671 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 926 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,057 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 754 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 792 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 799 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,396 mm (+55% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,396 mm). Driest: 2015 (647 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 | 154 | 110 | 95 | 48 | 18 | 10 | 9 | 20 | 30 | 100 | 130 | 178 |
| Mean °C | 18.3 | 18.2 | 16.9 | 14.2 | 11.2 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 11.0 | 14.9 | 16.3 | 17.0 | 18.0 |
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.