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Weather in Ward 9, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 29.9 °C, 26 mm of rain; a normal November has 138 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 5 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 | 13.8 | 2.9 |
| 2 | 22.3 | 15.3 | 7.1 |
| 3 | 25.1 | 13.4 | 12.1 |
| 4 | 28.5 | 13.6 | 2.1 |
| 5 | 27.2 | 16.5 | 1.4 |
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 | 181 mm, normal 138 mm |
| December | 219 mm, normal 165 mm |
| January | 227 mm, normal 162 mm |
| February | 103 mm, normal 130 mm |
| March | 244 mm, normal 116 mm |
| April | 69 mm, normal 53 mm |
| May | 21 mm, normal 22 mm |
| June | 7.3 mm, normal 12 mm |
| July | 6.2 mm, normal 12 mm |
| August | 46 mm, normal 19 mm |
| September | 95 mm, normal 40 mm |
| October | 13 mm, normal 90 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,072 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 778 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 817 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 830 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 974 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,158 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,196 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,004 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 942 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,557 mm (+62% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,007 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 741 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 718 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,222 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 958 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,188 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 745 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 971 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,045 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,125 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 979 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 1,020 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 913 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 896 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 773 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 739 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 842 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 778 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 874 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 900 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,087 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 927 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 966 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 822 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,111 mm (+16% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,557 mm). Driest: 2003 (718 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 32.8 °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 | 162 | 130 | 116 | 53 | 22 | 12 | 12 | 19 | 40 | 90 | 138 | 165 |
| Mean °C | 18.4 | 18.4 | 17.3 | 15.0 | 12.6 | 10.2 | 9.9 | 12.3 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 17.0 | 18.2 |
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.