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Weather in Ward 4, Nkandla
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.8 °C, 19 mm of rain; a normal November has 133 mm. Coldest night 15.3 °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 | 26.2 | 15.4 | 5.6 |
| 2 | 22.2 | 15.3 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 24.5 | 16.5 | 4.3 |
| 4 | 27.1 | 16.2 | 1.2 |
| 5 | 31.8 | 18.3 | 6.6 |
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 | 160 mm, normal 133 mm |
| December | 174 mm, normal 140 mm |
| January | 120 mm, normal 142 mm |
| February | 91 mm, normal 122 mm |
| March | 138 mm, normal 111 mm |
| April | 71 mm, normal 65 mm |
| May | 51 mm, normal 30 mm |
| June | 20 mm, normal 20 mm |
| July | 21 mm, normal 26 mm |
| August | 29 mm, normal 34 mm |
| September | 129 mm, normal 55 mm |
| October | 52 mm, normal 108 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 974 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 833 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 868 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 858 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,193 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,289 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,131 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,009 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,060 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,314 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 954 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 998 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 862 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 989 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 1,128 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,062 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 785 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 746 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 995 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 982 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,056 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,115 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 926 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 814 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 831 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 914 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 1,034 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 944 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 864 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,013 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,218 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 984 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,243 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 864 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,373 mm (+39% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,373 mm). Driest: 2008 (746 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.4 °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 | 142 | 122 | 111 | 65 | 30 | 20 | 26 | 34 | 55 | 108 | 133 | 140 |
| Mean °C | 20.4 | 20.5 | 19.4 | 17.0 | 14.5 | 12.0 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 16.2 | 17.0 | 18.3 | 19.8 |
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.