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Weather in Ward 18, Mafikeng
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.0 °C, 5.3 mm of rain; a normal November has 68 mm. Coldest night 17.5 °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 shares it with 19 neighbouring wards. It lies in one grid cell, and 6 of them get exactly the same figures.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31.7 | 19.8 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 31.3 | 17.5 | 0.8 |
| 3 | 32.5 | 18.9 | 1.8 |
| 4 | 32.9 | 19.9 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 34.0 | 22.0 | 2.6 |
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 | 74 mm, normal 68 mm |
| December | 113 mm, normal 83 mm |
| January | 30 mm, normal 88 mm |
| February | 57 mm, normal 85 mm |
| March | 185 mm, normal 66 mm |
| April | 122 mm, normal 41 mm |
| May | 39 mm, normal 18 mm |
| June | 14 mm, normal 9.6 mm |
| July | 0.4 mm, normal 3.0 mm |
| August | 2.9 mm, normal 7.8 mm |
| September | 81 mm, normal 14 mm |
| October | 5.5 mm, normal 44 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 709 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 358 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 534 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 376 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 575 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 607 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 657 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 583 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 549 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 884 mm (+67% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 763 mm (+44% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 469 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 373 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 542 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 450 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 766 mm (+45% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 390 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 477 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 711 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 570 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 567 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 414 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 329 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 567 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 316 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 418 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 622 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 353 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 477 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 448 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 678 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 510 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 348 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 305 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 844 mm (+60% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (884 mm). Driest: 2024 (305 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.2 °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 | 88 | 85 | 66 | 41 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 44 | 68 | 83 |
| Mean °C | 23.4 | 22.9 | 21.3 | 18.0 | 14.7 | 11.5 | 11.4 | 14.6 | 18.9 | 21.4 | 22.2 | 23.2 |
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.