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Weather in Ward 13, Thaba Chweu
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 31.5 °C, 14 mm of rain; a normal November has 124 mm. Coldest night 14.5 °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 15 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 | 31.5 | 15.0 | 0.3 |
| 2 | 20.2 | 15.2 | 3.8 |
| 3 | 28.0 | 14.5 | 5.0 |
| 4 | 28.5 | 15.9 | 4.3 |
| 5 | 28.1 | 16.4 | 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 | 155 mm, normal 124 mm |
| December | 172 mm, normal 166 mm |
| January | 426 mm, normal 171 mm |
| February | 67 mm, normal 136 mm |
| March | 310 mm, normal 106 mm |
| April | 118 mm, normal 54 mm |
| May | 28 mm, normal 17 mm |
| June | 7.7 mm, normal 8.3 mm |
| July | 1.3 mm, normal 8.9 mm |
| August | 33 mm, normal 14 mm |
| September | 66 mm, normal 26 mm |
| October | 9.8 mm, normal 69 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 833 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 740 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 687 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 626 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 899 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,076 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 1,003 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 972 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 957 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,317 mm (+46% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,035 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 635 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 672 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 1,160 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 902 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,222 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 745 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 978 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 1,115 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,161 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 952 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 854 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,013 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 804 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 741 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 807 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 778 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 656 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 718 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 938 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 896 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 825 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,072 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 794 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 987 mm (+10% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,317 mm). Driest: 1994 (626 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 33.0 °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 | 171 | 136 | 106 | 54 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 26 | 69 | 124 | 166 |
| Mean °C | 19.4 | 19.3 | 18.3 | 16.1 | 13.7 | 11.1 | 10.8 | 13.2 | 16.2 | 17.3 | 18.2 | 19.2 |
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.