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Weather in Ward 21, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 30.6 °C, 33 mm of rain; a normal November has 125 mm. Coldest night 13.6 °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 23 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 | 30.6 | 14.9 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 23.6 | 14.9 | 11.6 |
| 3 | 27.6 | 13.6 | 16.0 |
| 4 | 27.6 | 14.7 | 1.3 |
| 5 | 27.6 | 16.0 | 2.1 |
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 | 214 mm, normal 125 mm |
| December | 141 mm, normal 154 mm |
| January | 161 mm, normal 139 mm |
| February | 98 mm, normal 105 mm |
| March | 212 mm, normal 95 mm |
| April | 74 mm, normal 48 mm |
| May | 16 mm, normal 16 mm |
| June | 6.9 mm, normal 6.8 mm |
| July | 2.3 mm, normal 6.9 mm |
| August | 33 mm, normal 12 mm |
| September | 62 mm, normal 25 mm |
| October | 3.4 mm, normal 85 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 934 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 690 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 751 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 745 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 882 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,010 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 961 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 775 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 823 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,211 mm (+48% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 862 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 693 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 606 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 928 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 692 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,128 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 530 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 825 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 971 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,043 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 872 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 757 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 752 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 861 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 607 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 746 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 748 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 630 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 773 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 697 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 908 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 733 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 735 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 686 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,073 mm (+31% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,211 mm). Driest: 2007 (530 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 32.5 °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 | 139 | 105 | 95 | 48 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 85 | 125 | 154 |
| Mean °C | 18.2 | 18.1 | 17.0 | 14.6 | 11.8 | 9.0 | 8.9 | 11.7 | 15.2 | 16.4 | 17.1 | 18.0 |
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.