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Weather in Ward 6, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.9 °C, 18 mm of rain; a normal November has 135 mm. Coldest night 13.5 °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 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 | 29.9 | 13.5 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 22.6 | 15.4 | 5.1 |
| 3 | 25.3 | 13.9 | 7.3 |
| 4 | 28.7 | 13.8 | 2.6 |
| 5 | 27.7 | 16.7 | 0.8 |
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 | 185 mm, normal 135 mm |
| December | 224 mm, normal 164 mm |
| January | 258 mm, normal 164 mm |
| February | 95 mm, normal 134 mm |
| March | 251 mm, normal 118 mm |
| April | 72 mm, normal 55 mm |
| May | 25 mm, normal 22 mm |
| June | 8.1 mm, normal 12 mm |
| July | 6.4 mm, normal 12 mm |
| August | 47 mm, normal 20 mm |
| September | 93 mm, normal 40 mm |
| October | 17 mm, normal 86 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,061 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 761 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 825 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 801 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 963 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,163 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,218 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,036 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 958 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,573 mm (+64% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,038 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 740 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 701 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,230 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 967 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,185 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 765 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 969 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,032 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,149 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 962 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,028 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 914 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 883 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 743 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 718 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 872 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 772 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 879 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 918 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,097 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 952 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 985 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 837 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,134 mm (+18% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,573 mm). Driest: 2003 (701 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 33.3 °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 | 164 | 134 | 118 | 55 | 22 | 12 | 12 | 20 | 40 | 86 | 135 | 164 |
| Mean °C | 18.6 | 18.6 | 17.5 | 15.2 | 12.7 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 12.4 | 15.2 | 16.2 | 17.2 | 18.3 |
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.