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Weather in Ward 8, Thaba Chweu
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.1 °C, 4.7 mm of rain; a normal November has 94 mm. Coldest night 15.6 °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 6 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 | 33.1 | 18.0 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 22.8 | 17.7 | 3.7 |
| 3 | 29.8 | 15.6 | 0.5 |
| 4 | 30.7 | 18.6 | 0.4 |
| 5 | 31.1 | 18.6 | 0.1 |
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 | 116 mm, normal 94 mm |
| December | 104 mm, normal 117 mm |
| January | 503 mm, normal 122 mm |
| February | 37 mm, normal 96 mm |
| March | 240 mm, normal 73 mm |
| April | 97 mm, normal 43 mm |
| May | 32 mm, normal 13 mm |
| June | 6.3 mm, normal 6.2 mm |
| July | 1.1 mm, normal 6.3 mm |
| August | 22 mm, normal 10 mm |
| September | 47 mm, normal 19 mm |
| October | 4.9 mm, normal 45 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 537 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 549 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 482 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 398 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 644 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 787 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 712 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 871 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 664 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,063 mm (+65% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 897 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 342 mm (-47% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 474 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 801 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 715 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 808 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 538 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 655 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 624 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 779 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 604 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 571 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 892 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 667 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 468 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 544 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 558 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 447 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 517 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 708 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 782 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 494 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 883 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 514 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 655 mm (+2% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,063 mm). Driest: 2002 (342 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.2 °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 | 122 | 96 | 73 | 43 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 45 | 94 | 117 |
| Mean °C | 21.6 | 21.6 | 20.6 | 18.4 | 16.0 | 13.5 | 13.2 | 15.5 | 18.4 | 19.5 | 20.4 | 21.4 |
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.