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Weather in Ward 4, Thaba Chweu
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 30.9 °C, 22 mm of rain; a normal November has 139 mm. Coldest night 13.1 °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 16 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 | 30.9 | 13.1 | 0.7 |
| 2 | 21.1 | 14.0 | 4.3 |
| 3 | 28.0 | 13.1 | 11.8 |
| 4 | 28.1 | 13.8 | 4.3 |
| 5 | 27.4 | 15.4 | 0.9 |
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 | 181 mm, normal 139 mm |
| December | 204 mm, normal 182 mm |
| January | 362 mm, normal 174 mm |
| February | 87 mm, normal 140 mm |
| March | 316 mm, normal 114 mm |
| April | 129 mm, normal 57 mm |
| May | 25 mm, normal 20 mm |
| June | 8.1 mm, normal 8.7 mm |
| July | 2.1 mm, normal 9.3 mm |
| August | 39 mm, normal 15 mm |
| September | 60 mm, normal 29 mm |
| October | 9.7 mm, normal 84 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 968 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 808 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 745 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 709 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 1,040 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,138 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,038 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 985 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,042 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,431 mm (+47% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,067 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 747 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 680 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,241 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 913 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,348 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 736 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 1,039 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,255 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,258 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 994 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 921 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,038 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 895 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 764 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 874 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 887 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 722 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 811 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,025 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 933 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 934 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,067 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 876 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,166 mm (+20% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,431 mm). Driest: 2003 (680 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 31.9 °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 | 174 | 140 | 114 | 57 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 29 | 84 | 139 | 182 |
| Mean °C | 18.6 | 18.5 | 17.4 | 15.3 | 12.7 | 10.1 | 9.8 | 12.3 | 15.4 | 16.6 | 17.5 | 18.4 |
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.