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Weather in Ward 8, Big Five Hlabisa
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.6 °C, 8.9 mm of rain; a normal November has 85 mm. Coldest night 18.9 °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 17 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 | 31.3 | 18.9 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 26.4 | 19.5 | 2.7 |
| 3 | 28.0 | 21.0 | 2.8 |
| 4 | 31.6 | 20.9 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 34.6 | 22.0 | 1.1 |
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 | 124 mm, normal 85 mm |
| December | 114 mm, normal 89 mm |
| January | 151 mm, normal 99 mm |
| February | 26 mm, normal 88 mm |
| March | 109 mm, normal 84 mm |
| April | 29 mm, normal 49 mm |
| May | 24 mm, normal 27 mm |
| June | 18 mm, normal 19 mm |
| July | 17 mm, normal 22 mm |
| August | 18 mm, normal 24 mm |
| September | 76 mm, normal 39 mm |
| October | 34 mm, normal 69 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 625 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 391 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 689 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 575 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 953 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 847 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 894 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 744 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 960 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,042 mm (+50% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 815 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 534 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 520 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 644 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 644 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 774 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 524 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 471 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 639 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 635 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 704 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 823 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 827 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 590 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 515 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 622 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 789 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 674 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 692 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 660 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 972 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 740 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 839 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 652 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 887 mm (+28% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,042 mm). Driest: 1992 (391 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.1 °C in March 2024.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 99 | 88 | 84 | 49 | 27 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 39 | 69 | 85 | 89 |
| Mean °C | 24.6 | 24.7 | 23.8 | 21.7 | 19.6 | 17.4 | 17.0 | 18.5 | 20.2 | 20.9 | 22.3 | 23.9 |
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.