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Weather in Ward 5, Thaba Chweu
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 30.8 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 114 mm. Coldest night 13.7 °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 18 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 | 30.8 | 14.9 | 0.2 |
| 2 | 20.9 | 14.7 | 3.2 |
| 3 | 28.3 | 13.7 | 5.3 |
| 4 | 28.2 | 15.6 | 1.3 |
| 5 | 27.6 | 15.7 | 0.5 |
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 | 153 mm, normal 114 mm |
| December | 136 mm, normal 131 mm |
| January | 330 mm, normal 139 mm |
| February | 55 mm, normal 102 mm |
| March | 267 mm, normal 85 mm |
| April | 115 mm, normal 47 mm |
| May | 20 mm, normal 15 mm |
| June | 4.2 mm, normal 5.1 mm |
| July | 1.0 mm, normal 6.4 mm |
| August | 30 mm, normal 10 mm |
| September | 39 mm, normal 21 mm |
| October | 4.8 mm, normal 68 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 707 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 570 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 548 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 560 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 821 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 930 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 738 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 739 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 855 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,087 mm (+46% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 804 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 547 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 597 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 828 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 674 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,021 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 542 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 808 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 946 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 940 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 837 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 749 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 871 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 733 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 605 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 678 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 670 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 556 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 608 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 767 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 734 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 655 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 802 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 608 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 911 mm (+22% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,087 mm). Driest: 2007 (542 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 | 139 | 102 | 85 | 47 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 68 | 114 | 131 |
| Mean °C | 18.9 | 18.7 | 17.6 | 15.2 | 12.4 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 12.3 | 15.7 | 17.1 | 17.7 | 18.6 |
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.