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Weather in Ward 8, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 30.3 °C, 17 mm of rain; a normal November has 131 mm. Coldest night 13.2 °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 | 30.3 | 13.2 | 2.0 |
| 2 | 22.9 | 15.7 | 5.0 |
| 3 | 25.6 | 14.1 | 6.1 |
| 4 | 28.8 | 13.8 | 2.9 |
| 5 | 28.0 | 16.8 | 0.5 |
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 | 180 mm, normal 131 mm |
| December | 217 mm, normal 158 mm |
| January | 256 mm, normal 160 mm |
| February | 88 mm, normal 131 mm |
| March | 244 mm, normal 115 mm |
| April | 71 mm, normal 54 mm |
| May | 26 mm, normal 22 mm |
| June | 7.7 mm, normal 11 mm |
| July | 6.0 mm, normal 12 mm |
| August | 45 mm, normal 19 mm |
| September | 88 mm, normal 38 mm |
| October | 18 mm, normal 83 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,029 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 729 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 802 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 765 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 928 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,128 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,181 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,010 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 918 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,528 mm (+64% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,014 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 718 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 675 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,193 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 936 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,157 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 752 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 944 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,002 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,125 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 920 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 986 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 897 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 854 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 717 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 690 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 854 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 746 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 864 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 903 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,057 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 928 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 962 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 816 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,101 mm (+18% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,528 mm). Driest: 2003 (675 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 33.7 °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 | 160 | 131 | 115 | 54 | 22 | 11 | 12 | 19 | 38 | 83 | 131 | 158 |
| Mean °C | 18.8 | 18.8 | 17.7 | 15.4 | 12.8 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 12.5 | 15.3 | 16.3 | 17.4 | 18.5 |
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.