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Weather in Ward 3, uPhongolo
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.6 °C, 14 mm of rain; a normal November has 121 mm. Coldest night 14.3 °C on 1 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 5 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 | 14.3 | 2.5 |
| 2 | 23.5 | 17.5 | 3.8 |
| 3 | 25.9 | 16.8 | 4.2 |
| 4 | 30.1 | 16.5 | 1.5 |
| 5 | 31.6 | 19.3 | 1.9 |
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 | 132 mm, normal 121 mm |
| December | 200 mm, normal 128 mm |
| January | 216 mm, normal 128 mm |
| February | 51 mm, normal 106 mm |
| March | 140 mm, normal 89 mm |
| April | 65 mm, normal 48 mm |
| May | 45 mm, normal 21 mm |
| June | 14 mm, normal 14 mm |
| July | 5.7 mm, normal 15 mm |
| August | 31 mm, normal 25 mm |
| September | 82 mm, normal 41 mm |
| October | 31 mm, normal 88 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 850 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 589 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 691 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 607 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 957 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 930 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,042 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 889 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 949 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,303 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 903 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 645 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 649 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 971 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 780 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 920 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 641 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 664 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 940 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,008 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 748 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,029 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 914 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 763 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 550 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 729 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 838 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 749 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 700 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 729 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 931 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 791 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 866 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 744 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 982 mm (+19% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,303 mm). Driest: 2015 (550 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.8 °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 | 128 | 106 | 89 | 48 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 25 | 41 | 88 | 121 | 128 |
| Mean °C | 21.6 | 21.6 | 20.7 | 18.2 | 15.7 | 13.1 | 12.8 | 14.9 | 17.4 | 18.3 | 19.6 | 21.0 |
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.