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Weather in Ward 1, Emalahleni
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.3 °C, 14 mm of rain; a normal November has 114 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 | 32.3 | 17.3 | 0.8 |
| 2 | 26.1 | 17.0 | 7.6 |
| 3 | 29.6 | 14.9 | 5.0 |
| 4 | 29.6 | 16.8 | 0.2 |
| 5 | 30.7 | 18.5 | 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 | 232 mm, normal 114 mm |
| December | 156 mm, normal 140 mm |
| January | 125 mm, normal 134 mm |
| February | 76 mm, normal 107 mm |
| March | 229 mm, normal 103 mm |
| April | 91 mm, normal 50 mm |
| May | 36 mm, normal 17 mm |
| June | 6.9 mm, normal 7.0 mm |
| July | 1.9 mm, normal 6.0 mm |
| August | 62 mm, normal 9.8 mm |
| September | 61 mm, normal 22 mm |
| October | 2.4 mm, normal 80 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 877 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 543 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 774 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 685 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 936 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 951 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 939 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 687 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 815 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,290 mm (+63% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 840 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 719 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 570 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 908 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 657 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,065 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 609 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 680 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 903 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 877 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 866 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 743 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 756 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 887 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 540 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 779 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 808 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 599 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 734 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 662 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 830 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 700 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 620 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 566 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,206 mm (+53% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,290 mm). Driest: 2015 (540 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.3 °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 | 134 | 107 | 103 | 50 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 22 | 80 | 114 | 140 |
| Mean °C | 20.3 | 20.2 | 18.9 | 16.2 | 13.2 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 13.4 | 17.4 | 18.8 | 19.1 | 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.