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Weather in Ward 7, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.7 °C, 36 mm of rain; a normal November has 141 mm. Coldest night 13.4 °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 | 29.7 | 13.9 | 3.0 |
| 2 | 22.0 | 15.0 | 10.6 |
| 3 | 24.9 | 13.4 | 18.4 |
| 4 | 27.9 | 13.5 | 1.8 |
| 5 | 26.5 | 16.2 | 1.9 |
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 | 174 mm, normal 141 mm |
| December | 217 mm, normal 167 mm |
| January | 189 mm, normal 161 mm |
| February | 107 mm, normal 124 mm |
| March | 227 mm, normal 113 mm |
| April | 66 mm, normal 52 mm |
| May | 16 mm, normal 21 mm |
| June | 6.3 mm, normal 11 mm |
| July | 5.7 mm, normal 11 mm |
| August | 43 mm, normal 18 mm |
| September | 93 mm, normal 39 mm |
| October | 9.8 mm, normal 95 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,069 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 785 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 810 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 861 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 980 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,137 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,158 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 961 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 904 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,499 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 963 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 739 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 736 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,193 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 943 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,197 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 721 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 979 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,066 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,089 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 978 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 997 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 910 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 912 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 818 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 764 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 799 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 774 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 880 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 898 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,071 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 889 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 944 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 803 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,084 mm (+14% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,499 mm). Driest: 2007 (721 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 31.6 °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 | 161 | 124 | 113 | 52 | 21 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 39 | 95 | 141 | 167 |
| Mean °C | 18.1 | 18.0 | 16.9 | 14.6 | 12.1 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 11.9 | 14.7 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 17.8 |
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.