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Weather in Ward 18, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.2 °C, 16 mm of rain; a normal November has 114 mm. Coldest night 14.3 °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 | 32.2 | 14.3 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 24.4 | 17.2 | 5.0 |
| 3 | 27.9 | 14.7 | 6.2 |
| 4 | 30.4 | 15.6 | 2.7 |
| 5 | 29.6 | 17.8 | 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 | 146 mm, normal 114 mm |
| December | 176 mm, normal 133 mm |
| January | 229 mm, normal 133 mm |
| February | 66 mm, normal 111 mm |
| March | 207 mm, normal 93 mm |
| April | 73 mm, normal 47 mm |
| May | 22 mm, normal 18 mm |
| June | 5.4 mm, normal 8.9 mm |
| July | 4.0 mm, normal 8.8 mm |
| August | 40 mm, normal 15 mm |
| September | 67 mm, normal 31 mm |
| October | 19 mm, normal 71 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 898 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 581 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 665 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 603 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 760 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 943 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 970 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 852 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 707 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,327 mm (+69% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 873 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 612 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 560 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 990 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 746 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,022 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 659 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 786 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 856 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 993 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 735 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 746 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 834 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 706 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 597 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 570 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 745 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 627 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 764 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 792 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 849 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 786 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 823 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 705 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 921 mm (+18% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,327 mm). Driest: 2003 (560 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.3 °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 | 133 | 111 | 93 | 47 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 31 | 71 | 114 | 133 |
| Mean °C | 20.4 | 20.5 | 19.5 | 17.1 | 14.4 | 11.7 | 11.5 | 13.9 | 16.7 | 17.8 | 18.8 | 20.0 |
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.