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Weather in Ward 13, Nkandla
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 36.2 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 101 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 17.9 °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 8 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 | 30.0 | 18.0 | 1.2 |
| 2 | 26.0 | 17.9 | 2.3 |
| 3 | 28.4 | 18.9 | 4.4 |
| 4 | 30.7 | 18.1 | 0.4 |
| 5 | 36.2 | 19.5 | 2.4 |
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 | 105 mm, normal 101 mm |
| December | 146 mm, normal 109 mm |
| January | 81 mm, normal 111 mm |
| February | 83 mm, normal 98 mm |
| March | 74 mm, normal 88 mm |
| April | 46 mm, normal 52 mm |
| May | 37 mm, normal 27 mm |
| June | 19 mm, normal 18 mm |
| July | 18 mm, normal 26 mm |
| August | 26 mm, normal 31 mm |
| September | 73 mm, normal 49 mm |
| October | 39 mm, normal 82 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 762 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 661 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 690 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 677 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 990 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,086 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 908 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 776 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 803 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 996 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 827 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 813 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 666 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 812 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 920 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 794 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 636 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 611 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 810 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 783 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 925 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 942 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 757 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 611 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 675 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 726 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 841 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 758 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 731 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 772 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 982 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 829 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,044 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 671 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,065 mm (+34% on the normal) |
Wettest: 1996 (1,086 mm). Driest: 2008 (611 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 41.6 °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 | 111 | 98 | 88 | 52 | 27 | 18 | 26 | 31 | 49 | 82 | 101 | 109 |
| Mean °C | 23.1 | 23.2 | 22.1 | 19.8 | 17.3 | 14.5 | 14.3 | 16.2 | 18.4 | 19.4 | 20.8 | 22.3 |
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.