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Weather in Ward 8, Nkandla
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.0 °C, 17 mm of rain; a normal November has 114 mm. Coldest night 15.7 °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 | 27.4 | 16.3 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 23.8 | 15.7 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 26.2 | 16.7 | 3.7 |
| 4 | 29.1 | 16.4 | 0.6 |
| 5 | 33.0 | 18.7 | 8.8 |
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 | 126 mm, normal 114 mm |
| December | 151 mm, normal 119 mm |
| January | 85 mm, normal 118 mm |
| February | 90 mm, normal 104 mm |
| March | 101 mm, normal 92 mm |
| April | 53 mm, normal 52 mm |
| May | 44 mm, normal 24 mm |
| June | 16 mm, normal 16 mm |
| July | 15 mm, normal 22 mm |
| August | 25 mm, normal 30 mm |
| September | 100 mm, normal 46 mm |
| October | 45 mm, normal 89 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 814 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 715 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 742 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 745 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 996 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,156 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 950 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 854 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 854 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,099 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 796 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 842 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 707 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 843 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 991 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 920 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 668 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 623 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 840 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 795 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 897 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 918 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 764 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 667 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 670 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 728 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 859 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 772 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 705 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 838 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,008 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 865 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,045 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 717 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,148 mm (+39% on the normal) |
Wettest: 1996 (1,156 mm). Driest: 2008 (623 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.8 °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 | 118 | 104 | 92 | 52 | 24 | 16 | 22 | 30 | 46 | 89 | 114 | 119 |
| Mean °C | 20.9 | 20.9 | 19.8 | 17.3 | 14.7 | 11.9 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 16.6 | 17.5 | 18.8 | 20.3 |
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.