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Weather in Ward 12, Nkandla
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.2 °C, 14 mm of rain; a normal November has 110 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 5 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 | 28.3 | 16.7 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 24.4 | 16.7 | 1.9 |
| 3 | 26.8 | 17.8 | 4.2 |
| 4 | 29.5 | 17.1 | 0.6 |
| 5 | 34.2 | 19.2 | 4.7 |
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 | 122 mm, normal 110 mm |
| December | 154 mm, normal 117 mm |
| January | 90 mm, normal 119 mm |
| February | 86 mm, normal 103 mm |
| March | 93 mm, normal 93 mm |
| April | 53 mm, normal 54 mm |
| May | 41 mm, normal 27 mm |
| June | 18 mm, normal 18 mm |
| July | 17 mm, normal 24 mm |
| August | 26 mm, normal 31 mm |
| September | 91 mm, normal 49 mm |
| October | 43 mm, normal 88 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 813 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 703 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 731 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 723 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,026 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,141 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 956 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 835 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 859 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,081 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 832 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 851 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 713 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 849 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 975 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 870 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 669 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 635 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 849 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 818 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 940 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 964 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 783 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 663 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 699 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 754 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 878 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 792 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 738 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 835 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,031 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 864 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,087 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 718 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,152 mm (+38% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,152 mm). Driest: 2008 (635 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.7 °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 | 119 | 103 | 93 | 54 | 27 | 18 | 24 | 31 | 49 | 88 | 110 | 117 |
| Mean °C | 21.8 | 21.9 | 20.8 | 18.4 | 15.9 | 13.1 | 12.9 | 14.9 | 17.3 | 18.3 | 19.6 | 21.2 |
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.