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Weather in Ward 5, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 30.0 °C, 23 mm of rain; a normal November has 131 mm. Coldest night 13.1 °C on 1 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 | 30.0 | 13.1 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 22.2 | 15.3 | 7.0 |
| 3 | 25.0 | 13.5 | 10.2 |
| 4 | 28.1 | 13.5 | 2.5 |
| 5 | 27.0 | 16.3 | 0.9 |
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 | 172 mm, normal 131 mm |
| December | 205 mm, normal 156 mm |
| January | 219 mm, normal 155 mm |
| February | 94 mm, normal 124 mm |
| March | 228 mm, normal 110 mm |
| April | 64 mm, normal 51 mm |
| May | 21 mm, normal 21 mm |
| June | 6.2 mm, normal 11 mm |
| July | 5.6 mm, normal 11 mm |
| August | 42 mm, normal 18 mm |
| September | 85 mm, normal 37 mm |
| October | 14 mm, normal 84 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,015 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 726 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 782 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 769 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 912 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,096 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,139 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 953 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 879 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,473 mm (+62% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 962 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 701 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 673 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,157 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 903 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,137 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 714 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 929 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 990 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,084 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 907 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 960 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 874 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 839 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 735 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 686 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 804 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 726 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 845 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 848 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 993 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 874 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 900 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 769 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,040 mm (+15% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,473 mm). Driest: 2003 (673 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 32.2 °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 | 155 | 124 | 110 | 51 | 21 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 37 | 84 | 131 | 156 |
| Mean °C | 18.2 | 18.2 | 17.1 | 14.7 | 12.2 | 9.8 | 9.5 | 11.9 | 14.7 | 15.8 | 16.8 | 17.9 |
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.