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Weather in Ward 1, Mafikeng
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.6 °C, 4.4 mm of rain; a normal November has 66 mm. Coldest night 17.3 °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 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 | 31.8 | 19.6 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 31.6 | 17.3 | 0.8 |
| 3 | 33.0 | 19.2 | 1.7 |
| 4 | 33.4 | 20.3 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 34.6 | 22.2 | 1.7 |
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 | 69 mm, normal 66 mm |
| December | 103 mm, normal 81 mm |
| January | 27 mm, normal 87 mm |
| February | 54 mm, normal 79 mm |
| March | 168 mm, normal 62 mm |
| April | 124 mm, normal 39 mm |
| May | 35 mm, normal 18 mm |
| June | 13 mm, normal 9.9 mm |
| July | 0.4 mm, normal 3.1 mm |
| August | 2.4 mm, normal 7.7 mm |
| September | 94 mm, normal 14 mm |
| October | 4.9 mm, normal 43 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 698 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 356 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 505 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 363 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 556 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 594 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 640 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 582 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 535 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 841 mm (+65% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 742 mm (+45% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 458 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 364 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 490 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 421 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 752 mm (+47% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 354 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 454 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 705 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 553 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 557 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 391 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 311 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 541 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 308 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 406 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 599 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 335 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 472 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 420 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 661 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 507 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 320 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 278 mm (-46% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 798 mm (+56% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (841 mm). Driest: 2024 (278 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.6 °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 | 87 | 79 | 62 | 39 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 43 | 66 | 81 |
| Mean °C | 23.7 | 23.2 | 21.6 | 18.2 | 14.8 | 11.6 | 11.4 | 14.7 | 19.1 | 21.7 | 22.4 | 23.5 |
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.