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Weather in Ward 5, Merafong City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.0 °C, 12 mm of rain; a normal November has 100 mm. Coldest night 16.4 °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 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 | 30.4 | 18.2 | 1.2 |
| 2 | 28.5 | 16.5 | 3.5 |
| 3 | 29.7 | 16.4 | 4.0 |
| 4 | 30.9 | 16.6 | 0.2 |
| 5 | 31.0 | 18.1 | 3.2 |
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 | 155 mm, normal 100 mm |
| December | 190 mm, normal 137 mm |
| January | 91 mm, normal 130 mm |
| February | 75 mm, normal 121 mm |
| March | 192 mm, normal 88 mm |
| April | 86 mm, normal 43 mm |
| May | 50 mm, normal 20 mm |
| June | 8.4 mm, normal 8.4 mm |
| July | 0.7 mm, normal 3.9 mm |
| August | 15 mm, normal 11 mm |
| September | 85 mm, normal 20 mm |
| October | 12 mm, normal 70 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 802 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 547 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 772 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 635 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 878 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 965 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 961 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 735 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 778 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,429 mm (+90% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 834 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 723 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 569 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 806 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 692 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 905 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 443 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 700 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 902 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 837 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 820 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 644 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 567 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 689 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 485 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 734 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 710 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 616 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 737 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 657 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 810 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 687 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 589 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 512 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,166 mm (+55% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,429 mm). Driest: 2007 (443 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 34.8 °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 | 130 | 121 | 88 | 43 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 70 | 100 | 137 |
| Mean °C | 20.6 | 20.3 | 18.8 | 16.0 | 12.9 | 9.9 | 9.7 | 12.9 | 17.2 | 19.1 | 19.6 | 20.4 |
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.