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Weather in Ward 23, Chief Albert Luthuli
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.6 °C, 28 mm of rain; a normal November has 138 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 13 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 | 31.6 | 12.9 | 2.0 |
| 2 | 23.5 | 16.2 | 6.7 |
| 3 | 27.0 | 14.1 | 16.7 |
| 4 | 29.4 | 13.7 | 1.9 |
| 5 | 28.4 | 17.0 | 0.3 |
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 | 169 mm, normal 138 mm |
| December | 228 mm, normal 163 mm |
| January | 277 mm, normal 158 mm |
| February | 90 mm, normal 129 mm |
| March | 239 mm, normal 111 mm |
| April | 97 mm, normal 57 mm |
| May | 24 mm, normal 22 mm |
| June | 7.3 mm, normal 11 mm |
| July | 7.5 mm, normal 11 mm |
| August | 48 mm, normal 18 mm |
| September | 78 mm, normal 38 mm |
| October | 15 mm, normal 88 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,085 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 736 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 829 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 755 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 954 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,090 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,178 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,033 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 870 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,507 mm (+59% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,016 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 766 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 671 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,112 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 886 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,220 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 766 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 913 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,055 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,191 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 904 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 936 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,012 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 859 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 770 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 753 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 884 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 768 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 900 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 936 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,020 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 892 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 942 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 844 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,134 mm (+20% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,507 mm). Driest: 2003 (671 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 34.7 °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 | 158 | 129 | 111 | 57 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 38 | 88 | 138 | 163 |
| Mean °C | 19.6 | 19.6 | 18.6 | 16.2 | 13.5 | 10.9 | 10.7 | 13.1 | 15.9 | 17.1 | 18.1 | 19.2 |
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.