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Weather in Ward 7, Nkandla
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.0 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 127 mm. Coldest night 16.7 °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 | 27.6 | 16.7 | 3.0 |
| 2 | 23.7 | 17.0 | 1.9 |
| 3 | 25.5 | 18.0 | 3.3 |
| 4 | 27.5 | 17.6 | 0.4 |
| 5 | 34.0 | 19.1 | 2.0 |
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 | 143 mm, normal 127 mm |
| December | 166 mm, normal 133 mm |
| January | 126 mm, normal 142 mm |
| February | 101 mm, normal 123 mm |
| March | 132 mm, normal 116 mm |
| April | 64 mm, normal 71 mm |
| May | 49 mm, normal 38 mm |
| June | 28 mm, normal 25 mm |
| July | 27 mm, normal 34 mm |
| August | 37 mm, normal 39 mm |
| September | 103 mm, normal 64 mm |
| October | 51 mm, normal 106 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,002 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 800 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 888 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 836 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,246 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,285 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,165 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 983 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,119 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,295 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,096 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 1,044 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 834 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,032 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 1,096 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,007 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 798 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 770 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,002 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,056 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 1,147 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,202 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 989 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 797 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 891 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 991 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 1,154 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 1,019 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 975 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,003 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,306 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 1,026 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,319 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 868 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,315 mm (+29% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2023 (1,319 mm). Driest: 2008 (770 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.0 °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 | 123 | 116 | 71 | 38 | 25 | 34 | 39 | 64 | 106 | 127 | 133 |
| Mean °C | 22.0 | 22.1 | 21.1 | 18.8 | 16.5 | 14.1 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 17.6 | 18.4 | 19.7 | 21.3 |
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.