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Weather in Ward 1, Nkandla
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.1 °C, 21 mm of rain; a normal November has 138 mm. Coldest night 15.1 °C on 2 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 4 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 | 25.8 | 15.3 | 6.6 |
| 2 | 21.8 | 15.1 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 24.0 | 16.4 | 4.1 |
| 4 | 26.8 | 15.8 | 1.5 |
| 5 | 31.1 | 18.1 | 7.0 |
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 | 169 mm, normal 138 mm |
| December | 180 mm, normal 144 mm |
| January | 129 mm, normal 146 mm |
| February | 88 mm, normal 125 mm |
| March | 148 mm, normal 114 mm |
| April | 73 mm, normal 67 mm |
| May | 51 mm, normal 30 mm |
| June | 20 mm, normal 19 mm |
| July | 22 mm, normal 25 mm |
| August | 28 mm, normal 34 mm |
| September | 138 mm, normal 56 mm |
| October | 54 mm, normal 111 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 992 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 856 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 892 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 885 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,220 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,297 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,167 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,046 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,092 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,361 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 971 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,009 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 891 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,007 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 1,142 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,101 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 803 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 768 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,026 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,015 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,059 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,140 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 955 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 842 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 851 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 952 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 1,046 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 966 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 890 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,046 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,248 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 1,006 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,266 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 908 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,421 mm (+41% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,421 mm). Driest: 2008 (768 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.6 °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 | 146 | 125 | 114 | 67 | 30 | 19 | 25 | 34 | 56 | 111 | 138 | 144 |
| Mean °C | 20.1 | 20.2 | 19.1 | 16.8 | 14.4 | 11.9 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 16.0 | 16.8 | 18.1 | 19.5 |
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.