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Weather in Ward 1, Merafong City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.5 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 96 mm. Coldest night 16.9 °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 2 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 | 30.8 | 18.4 | 0.9 |
| 2 | 28.9 | 16.9 | 1.8 |
| 3 | 30.2 | 17.0 | 4.0 |
| 4 | 31.5 | 17.0 | 0.5 |
| 5 | 31.5 | 18.6 | 3.8 |
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 | 143 mm, normal 96 mm |
| December | 192 mm, normal 132 mm |
| January | 76 mm, normal 125 mm |
| February | 72 mm, normal 120 mm |
| March | 183 mm, normal 86 mm |
| April | 80 mm, normal 42 mm |
| May | 55 mm, normal 20 mm |
| June | 8.1 mm, normal 8.2 mm |
| July | 0.8 mm, normal 3.9 mm |
| August | 15 mm, normal 11 mm |
| September | 83 mm, normal 20 mm |
| October | 11 mm, normal 67 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 774 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 550 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 744 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 613 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 834 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 924 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 940 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 724 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 760 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,425 mm (+95% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 827 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 690 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 561 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 790 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 681 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 886 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 433 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 683 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 867 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 800 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 809 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 621 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 537 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 652 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 477 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 709 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 682 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 589 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 712 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 622 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 814 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 652 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 579 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 492 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,101 mm (+51% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,425 mm). Driest: 2007 (433 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.0 °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 | 125 | 120 | 86 | 42 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 67 | 96 | 132 |
| Mean °C | 20.9 | 20.5 | 19.0 | 16.2 | 13.1 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 13.1 | 17.4 | 19.4 | 19.9 | 20.7 |
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.