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Weather in Ward 12, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.0 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 119 mm. Coldest night 14.1 °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 6 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 | 31.0 | 14.1 | 0.9 |
| 2 | 24.2 | 17.2 | 4.6 |
| 3 | 27.8 | 15.5 | 2.7 |
| 4 | 30.0 | 15.8 | 2.2 |
| 5 | 30.1 | 18.1 | 0.1 |
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 | 155 mm, normal 119 mm |
| December | 209 mm, normal 144 mm |
| January | 287 mm, normal 149 mm |
| February | 56 mm, normal 125 mm |
| March | 227 mm, normal 106 mm |
| April | 76 mm, normal 53 mm |
| May | 24 mm, normal 21 mm |
| June | 7.3 mm, normal 10 mm |
| July | 3.5 mm, normal 10 mm |
| August | 40 mm, normal 18 mm |
| September | 71 mm, normal 33 mm |
| October | 22 mm, normal 73 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 938 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 615 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 715 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 663 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 844 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,051 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,071 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 975 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 813 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,447 mm (+68% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 980 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 650 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 594 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,116 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 832 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,086 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 738 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 840 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 899 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,055 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 795 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 835 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 898 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 818 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 621 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 622 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 848 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 697 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 828 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 913 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 966 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 837 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 910 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 787 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,020 mm (+19% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,447 mm). Driest: 2003 (594 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.2 °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 | 149 | 125 | 106 | 53 | 21 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 33 | 73 | 119 | 144 |
| Mean °C | 20.5 | 20.5 | 19.6 | 17.2 | 14.7 | 12.2 | 11.9 | 14.1 | 16.9 | 17.9 | 19.0 | 20.1 |
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.