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Weather in Ward 1, Big Five Hlabisa
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.9 °C, 7.3 mm of rain; a normal November has 93 mm. Coldest night 20.3 °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 | 29.3 | 20.3 | 0.5 |
| 2 | 25.8 | 20.8 | 4.5 |
| 3 | 27.8 | 21.4 | 2.0 |
| 4 | 30.5 | 21.9 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 31.9 | 22.5 | 0.2 |
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 | 130 mm, normal 93 mm |
| December | 141 mm, normal 95 mm |
| January | 218 mm, normal 108 mm |
| February | 18 mm, normal 92 mm |
| March | 193 mm, normal 96 mm |
| April | 41 mm, normal 67 mm |
| May | 41 mm, normal 41 mm |
| June | 28 mm, normal 28 mm |
| July | 18 mm, normal 29 mm |
| August | 34 mm, normal 31 mm |
| September | 75 mm, normal 45 mm |
| October | 49 mm, normal 76 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 800 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 411 mm (-49% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 742 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 599 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,052 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 869 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,130 mm (+41% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 799 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 982 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,260 mm (+57% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 981 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 556 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 683 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 743 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 759 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,009 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 617 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 632 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 795 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 837 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 807 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 997 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 890 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 662 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 558 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 757 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 889 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 826 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 652 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 771 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,019 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 765 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 802 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 796 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,004 mm (+25% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,260 mm). Driest: 1992 (411 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.7 °C in November 2023.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 108 | 92 | 96 | 67 | 41 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 45 | 76 | 93 | 95 |
| Mean °C | 25.2 | 25.3 | 24.6 | 22.7 | 20.9 | 19.0 | 18.5 | 19.6 | 21.0 | 21.7 | 23.1 | 24.5 |
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.