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Weather in Ward 17, Merafong City
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.2 °C, 12 mm of rain; a normal November has 97 mm. Coldest night 16.7 °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 3 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 | 18.6 | 1.3 |
| 2 | 28.7 | 16.8 | 3.0 |
| 3 | 29.8 | 16.7 | 4.3 |
| 4 | 31.2 | 16.7 | 0.6 |
| 5 | 31.2 | 18.7 | 3.1 |
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 | 140 mm, normal 97 mm |
| December | 192 mm, normal 135 mm |
| January | 87 mm, normal 127 mm |
| February | 72 mm, normal 122 mm |
| March | 191 mm, normal 88 mm |
| April | 83 mm, normal 43 mm |
| May | 52 mm, normal 20 mm |
| June | 8.1 mm, normal 8.4 mm |
| July | 0.8 mm, normal 4.0 mm |
| August | 14 mm, normal 11 mm |
| September | 84 mm, normal 20 mm |
| October | 11 mm, normal 68 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 790 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 538 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 749 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 633 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 848 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 935 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 928 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 732 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 771 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,446 mm (+94% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 834 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 713 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 565 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 802 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 680 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 872 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 434 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 707 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 893 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 827 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 813 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 649 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 557 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 686 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 481 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 715 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 701 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 616 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 754 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 642 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 804 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 682 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 589 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 497 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,125 mm (+51% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,446 mm). Driest: 2007 (434 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.1 °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 | 127 | 122 | 88 | 43 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 68 | 97 | 135 |
| Mean °C | 20.8 | 20.5 | 19.0 | 16.3 | 13.2 | 10.2 | 10.0 | 13.2 | 17.4 | 19.3 | 19.8 | 20.6 |
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.