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Weather in Ward 5, Nkandla
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.0 °C, 17 mm of rain; a normal November has 140 mm. Coldest night 15.8 °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 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 | 26.6 | 15.8 | 6.1 |
| 2 | 22.5 | 15.8 | 1.7 |
| 3 | 24.6 | 17.1 | 3.9 |
| 4 | 27.1 | 16.7 | 0.9 |
| 5 | 32.0 | 18.5 | 4.5 |
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 | 164 mm, normal 140 mm |
| December | 194 mm, normal 148 mm |
| January | 133 mm, normal 152 mm |
| February | 105 mm, normal 130 mm |
| March | 144 mm, normal 121 mm |
| April | 73 mm, normal 73 mm |
| May | 48 mm, normal 35 mm |
| June | 24 mm, normal 23 mm |
| July | 25 mm, normal 29 mm |
| August | 32 mm, normal 38 mm |
| September | 130 mm, normal 63 mm |
| October | 54 mm, normal 115 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,045 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 893 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 931 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 922 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,302 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,358 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,214 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,076 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,147 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,379 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,069 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,076 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 925 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,068 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 1,200 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,109 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 845 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 812 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,062 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,090 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,158 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,230 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,012 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 868 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 923 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 1,023 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 1,111 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 1,027 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 976 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,092 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,317 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 1,058 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,328 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 948 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,442 mm (+35% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,442 mm). Driest: 2008 (812 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.6 °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 | 152 | 130 | 121 | 73 | 35 | 23 | 29 | 38 | 63 | 115 | 140 | 148 |
| Mean °C | 20.8 | 20.8 | 19.8 | 17.5 | 15.1 | 12.6 | 12.4 | 14.3 | 16.5 | 17.3 | 18.6 | 20.1 |
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.