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Weather in Ward 3, Merafong City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.6 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 95 mm. Coldest night 17.0 °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 4 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 | 31.0 | 18.7 | 1.0 |
| 2 | 29.0 | 17.0 | 1.7 |
| 3 | 30.2 | 17.1 | 4.1 |
| 4 | 31.6 | 17.1 | 0.7 |
| 5 | 31.6 | 19.0 | 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 | 135 mm, normal 95 mm |
| December | 192 mm, normal 131 mm |
| January | 75 mm, normal 124 mm |
| February | 71 mm, normal 120 mm |
| March | 184 mm, normal 86 mm |
| April | 78 mm, normal 42 mm |
| May | 56 mm, normal 20 mm |
| June | 8.0 mm, normal 8.3 mm |
| July | 0.9 mm, normal 3.9 mm |
| August | 15 mm, normal 10 mm |
| September | 82 mm, normal 20 mm |
| October | 11 mm, normal 67 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 770 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 543 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 734 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 615 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 822 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 907 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 922 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 723 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 759 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,431 mm (+97% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 829 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 689 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 559 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 792 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 676 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 867 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 427 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 685 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 865 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 799 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 803 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 628 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 535 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 652 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 473 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 700 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 680 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 592 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 727 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 618 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 811 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 652 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 580 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 485 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,084 mm (+49% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,431 mm). Driest: 2007 (427 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.2 °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 | 124 | 120 | 86 | 42 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 67 | 95 | 131 |
| Mean °C | 21.0 | 20.6 | 19.2 | 16.4 | 13.3 | 10.2 | 10.0 | 13.2 | 17.5 | 19.5 | 20.0 | 20.8 |
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.