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Weather in Ward 5, Moses Kotane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 36.0 °C, 1.7 mm of rain; a normal November has 83 mm. 2 days reached 35 °C. Coldest night 18.9 °C on 3 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 | 35.0 | 20.6 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 32.3 | 22.4 | 1.0 |
| 3 | 33.8 | 18.9 | 0.2 |
| 4 | 34.6 | 21.0 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 36.0 | 23.2 | 0.4 |
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 | 125 mm, normal 83 mm |
| December | 145 mm, normal 111 mm |
| January | 63 mm, normal 111 mm |
| February | 60 mm, normal 98 mm |
| March | 196 mm, normal 81 mm |
| April | 74 mm, normal 40 mm |
| May | 42 mm, normal 15 mm |
| June | 8.9 mm, normal 6.9 mm |
| July | 0.0 mm, normal 2.9 mm |
| August | 7.8 mm, normal 3.7 mm |
| September | 58 mm, normal 13 mm |
| October | 3.3 mm, normal 42 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 630 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 365 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 498 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 435 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 768 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 769 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 809 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 651 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 560 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,087 mm (+79% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 810 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 384 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 393 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 729 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 559 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 785 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 448 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 626 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 747 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 632 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 724 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 522 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 421 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 763 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 292 mm (-52% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 580 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 745 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 506 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 460 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 525 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 756 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 530 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 428 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 280 mm (-54% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,064 mm (+75% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,087 mm). Driest: 2024 (280 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 39.3 °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 | 81 | 40 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 42 | 83 | 111 |
| Mean °C | 24.3 | 24.0 | 22.6 | 19.6 | 16.5 | 13.5 | 13.3 | 16.6 | 21.0 | 23.3 | 23.7 | 24.1 |
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.