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Weather in Ward 3, Nkandla
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.2 °C, 21 mm of rain; a normal November has 129 mm. Coldest night 14.9 °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 6 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 | 25.9 | 15.0 | 5.2 |
| 2 | 22.0 | 14.9 | 1.4 |
| 3 | 24.3 | 16.0 | 4.1 |
| 4 | 27.2 | 15.6 | 1.4 |
| 5 | 31.2 | 18.0 | 8.4 |
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 | 156 mm, normal 129 mm |
| December | 162 mm, normal 133 mm |
| January | 112 mm, normal 133 mm |
| February | 80 mm, normal 115 mm |
| March | 133 mm, normal 103 mm |
| April | 66 mm, normal 59 mm |
| May | 51 mm, normal 26 mm |
| June | 16 mm, normal 17 mm |
| July | 18 mm, normal 23 mm |
| August | 26 mm, normal 32 mm |
| September | 127 mm, normal 50 mm |
| October | 50 mm, normal 102 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 912 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 787 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 822 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 813 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,098 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,219 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,071 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 963 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 993 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,269 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 870 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 925 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 806 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 921 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 1,056 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,036 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 735 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 696 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 944 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 907 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 959 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,021 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 862 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 770 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 756 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 838 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 969 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 877 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 783 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 947 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,132 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 928 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,163 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 817 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,313 mm (+43% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,313 mm). Driest: 2008 (696 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.9 °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 | 133 | 115 | 103 | 59 | 26 | 17 | 23 | 32 | 50 | 102 | 129 | 133 |
| Mean °C | 20.0 | 20.0 | 18.9 | 16.4 | 13.9 | 11.4 | 11.2 | 13.3 | 15.9 | 16.7 | 18.0 | 19.4 |
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.