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Weather in Ward 18, 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 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 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 | 30.6 | 18.4 | 1.3 |
| 2 | 28.6 | 16.6 | 3.2 |
| 3 | 29.7 | 16.5 | 4.1 |
| 4 | 31.0 | 16.6 | 0.4 |
| 5 | 31.1 | 18.4 | 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 | 148 mm, normal 99 mm |
| December | 191 mm, normal 136 mm |
| January | 89 mm, normal 129 mm |
| February | 73 mm, normal 122 mm |
| March | 192 mm, normal 88 mm |
| April | 85 mm, normal 43 mm |
| May | 51 mm, normal 20 mm |
| June | 8.2 mm, normal 8.4 mm |
| July | 0.8 mm, normal 3.9 mm |
| August | 14 mm, normal 11 mm |
| September | 85 mm, normal 20 mm |
| October | 12 mm, normal 69 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 796 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 544 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 762 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 634 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 864 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 951 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 946 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 734 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 774 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,437 mm (+92% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 833 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 718 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 567 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 804 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 686 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 891 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 439 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 703 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 897 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 832 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 817 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 645 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 562 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 687 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 484 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 725 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 706 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 616 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 744 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 650 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 807 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 685 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 589 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 505 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,148 mm (+53% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,437 mm). Driest: 2007 (439 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 34.9 °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 | 122 | 88 | 43 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 69 | 99 | 136 |
| Mean °C | 20.7 | 20.4 | 18.9 | 16.1 | 13.1 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 13.1 | 17.3 | 19.2 | 19.7 | 20.5 |
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.