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Weather in Ward 16, Merafong City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.1 °C, 12 mm of rain; a normal November has 99 mm. Coldest night 16.5 °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 7 neighbouring wards. It lies in one grid cell.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30.4 | 18.1 | 1.1 |
| 2 | 28.5 | 16.5 | 3.2 |
| 3 | 29.7 | 16.5 | 3.9 |
| 4 | 30.9 | 16.6 | 0.2 |
| 5 | 31.1 | 18.1 | 3.3 |
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 | 156 mm, normal 99 mm |
| December | 191 mm, normal 136 mm |
| January | 89 mm, normal 129 mm |
| February | 75 mm, normal 121 mm |
| March | 190 mm, normal 88 mm |
| April | 85 mm, normal 43 mm |
| May | 51 mm, normal 20 mm |
| June | 8.3 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 | 797 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 550 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 770 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 630 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 872 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 960 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 963 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 733 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 774 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,426 mm (+91% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 831 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 716 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 568 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 803 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 692 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 906 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 442 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 694 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 894 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 829 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 817 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 636 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 561 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 679 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 484 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 731 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 704 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 608 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 726 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 651 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 812 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 680 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 586 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 510 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,161 mm (+55% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,426 mm). Driest: 2007 (442 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 | 129 | 121 | 88 | 43 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 70 | 99 | 136 |
| Mean °C | 20.7 | 20.3 | 18.8 | 16.0 | 12.9 | 9.9 | 9.7 | 12.9 | 17.2 | 19.2 | 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.