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Weather in Ward 8, Emalahleni
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.1 °C, 17 mm of rain; a normal November has 110 mm. Coldest night 14.3 °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 shares it with 12 neighbouring wards. It lies in one grid cell, and 5 of them get exactly the same figures.
November so far, day by day
| Nov | High °C | Low °C | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32.1 | 17.1 | 0.6 |
| 2 | 26.2 | 16.7 | 11.0 |
| 3 | 29.3 | 14.3 | 4.6 |
| 4 | 29.3 | 16.6 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 30.5 | 18.0 | 0.4 |
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 | 231 mm, normal 110 mm |
| December | 152 mm, normal 136 mm |
| January | 117 mm, normal 130 mm |
| February | 77 mm, normal 103 mm |
| March | 216 mm, normal 101 mm |
| April | 75 mm, normal 48 mm |
| May | 36 mm, normal 17 mm |
| June | 6.4 mm, normal 6.8 mm |
| July | 1.3 mm, normal 5.7 mm |
| August | 63 mm, normal 9.9 mm |
| September | 63 mm, normal 22 mm |
| October | 2.1 mm, normal 79 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 867 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 523 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 760 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 657 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 910 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 933 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 920 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 659 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 805 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,263 mm (+65% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 814 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 675 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 566 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 899 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 647 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,009 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 602 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 662 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 869 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 851 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 843 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 706 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 736 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 839 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 508 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 784 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 784 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 575 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 716 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 635 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 812 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 683 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 591 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 559 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,173 mm (+53% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,263 mm). Driest: 2015 (508 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.0 °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 | 130 | 103 | 101 | 48 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 22 | 79 | 110 | 136 |
| Mean °C | 20.0 | 20.0 | 18.6 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 10.2 | 10.0 | 13.1 | 17.1 | 18.6 | 18.9 | 19.7 |
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.