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Weather in Ward 21, Emalahleni
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 32.0 °C, 16 mm of rain; a normal November has 111 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 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 | 32.0 | 17.0 | 0.5 |
| 2 | 25.8 | 16.6 | 10.6 |
| 3 | 29.2 | 14.3 | 4.5 |
| 4 | 29.3 | 16.3 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 30.3 | 17.6 | 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 | 228 mm, normal 111 mm |
| December | 155 mm, normal 134 mm |
| January | 121 mm, normal 131 mm |
| February | 74 mm, normal 102 mm |
| March | 213 mm, normal 100 mm |
| April | 71 mm, normal 48 mm |
| May | 35 mm, normal 17 mm |
| June | 6.6 mm, normal 6.8 mm |
| July | 1.4 mm, normal 6.0 mm |
| August | 57 mm, normal 10 mm |
| September | 59 mm, normal 21 mm |
| October | 2.0 mm, normal 80 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 863 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 543 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 745 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 654 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 892 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 953 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 920 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 659 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 796 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,275 mm (+66% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 795 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 666 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 586 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 896 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 649 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 991 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 578 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 686 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 867 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 878 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 855 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 706 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 730 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 847 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 514 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 770 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 770 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 564 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 721 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 630 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 779 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 661 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 585 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 540 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,127 mm (+47% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,275 mm). Driest: 2015 (514 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 34.8 °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 | 102 | 100 | 48 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 80 | 111 | 134 |
| Mean °C | 19.9 | 19.9 | 18.6 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 10.2 | 10.0 | 13.1 | 17.0 | 18.5 | 18.8 | 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.