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Weather in Ward 16, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 30.9 °C, 31 mm of rain; a normal November has 136 mm. Coldest night 12.9 °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 11 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 | 30.9 | 12.9 | 2.0 |
| 2 | 22.8 | 15.6 | 8.7 |
| 3 | 25.8 | 13.5 | 17.5 |
| 4 | 28.6 | 13.4 | 1.7 |
| 5 | 27.3 | 16.4 | 0.9 |
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 | 163 mm, normal 136 mm |
| December | 197 mm, normal 156 mm |
| January | 199 mm, normal 151 mm |
| February | 90 mm, normal 119 mm |
| March | 214 mm, normal 107 mm |
| April | 71 mm, normal 52 mm |
| May | 19 mm, normal 21 mm |
| June | 6.2 mm, normal 11 mm |
| July | 5.1 mm, normal 10 mm |
| August | 39 mm, normal 17 mm |
| September | 81 mm, normal 37 mm |
| October | 12 mm, normal 89 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,032 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 718 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 784 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 782 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 928 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,051 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,132 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 938 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 833 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,425 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 945 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 723 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 681 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,100 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 875 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,160 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 711 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 914 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,008 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,076 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 897 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 920 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 905 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 856 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 766 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 716 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 799 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 732 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 871 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 862 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 979 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 839 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 886 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 768 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,020 mm (+13% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,425 mm). Driest: 2003 (681 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 32.9 °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 | 151 | 119 | 107 | 52 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 37 | 89 | 136 | 156 |
| Mean °C | 18.6 | 18.6 | 17.4 | 15.1 | 12.4 | 9.9 | 9.7 | 12.1 | 15.0 | 16.1 | 17.1 | 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.