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Weather in Ward 5, Lekwa
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.3 °C, 24 mm of rain; a normal November has 119 mm. Coldest night 14.9 °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 2 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 | 31.3 | 16.8 | 1.3 |
| 2 | 27.1 | 16.0 | 2.4 |
| 3 | 30.0 | 14.9 | 6.8 |
| 4 | 29.9 | 15.5 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 30.5 | 17.0 | 13.4 |
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 | 233 mm, normal 119 mm |
| December | 163 mm, normal 158 mm |
| January | 142 mm, normal 131 mm |
| February | 94 mm, normal 97 mm |
| March | 157 mm, normal 87 mm |
| April | 75 mm, normal 43 mm |
| May | 25 mm, normal 16 mm |
| June | 14 mm, normal 8.8 mm |
| July | 1.9 mm, normal 7.5 mm |
| August | 34 mm, normal 14 mm |
| September | 97 mm, normal 26 mm |
| October | 5.4 mm, normal 96 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 831 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 668 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 906 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 736 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 944 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,101 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 947 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 918 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 808 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,138 mm (+42% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 764 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 717 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 654 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 840 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 759 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 975 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 581 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 620 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 878 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 928 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 794 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 723 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 811 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 800 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 530 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 784 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 813 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 632 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 627 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 832 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,020 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 708 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 643 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 706 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,270 mm (+58% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,270 mm). Driest: 2015 (530 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 34.5 °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 | 131 | 97 | 87 | 43 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 26 | 96 | 119 | 158 |
| Mean °C | 19.3 | 19.4 | 18.0 | 15.3 | 12.2 | 9.1 | 9.0 | 12.2 | 16.2 | 17.6 | 18.1 | 19.1 |
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.