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Weather in Ward 1, Ba-Phalaborwa
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 35.9 °C, 1.0 mm of rain; a normal November has 70 mm. 3 days reached 35 °C. Coldest night 19.3 °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 4 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 | 35.6 | 19.3 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.3 | 21.7 | 1.0 |
| 3 | 34.9 | 21.0 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 35.9 | 22.7 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 35.7 | 23.6 | 0.0 |
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 | 90 mm, normal 70 mm |
| December | 94 mm, normal 100 mm |
| January | 546 mm, normal 99 mm |
| February | 12 mm, normal 77 mm |
| March | 183 mm, normal 49 mm |
| April | 64 mm, normal 26 mm |
| May | 7.0 mm, normal 10 mm |
| June | 7.6 mm, normal 5.4 mm |
| July | 0.6 mm, normal 6.0 mm |
| August | 19 mm, normal 5.5 mm |
| September | 42 mm, normal 13 mm |
| October | 4.8 mm, normal 27 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 337 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 527 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 371 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 268 mm (-45% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 400 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 707 mm (+45% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 441 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 667 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 646 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 978 mm (+100% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 640 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 188 mm (-62% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 385 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 533 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 418 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 648 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 439 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 396 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 396 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 598 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 434 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 386 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 856 mm (+75% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 579 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 272 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 337 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 515 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 310 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 465 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 526 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 588 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 361 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 681 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 298 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 588 mm (+20% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (978 mm). Driest: 2002 (188 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 43.3 °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 | 99 | 77 | 49 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 27 | 70 | 100 |
| Mean °C | 25.8 | 25.8 | 25.1 | 22.7 | 20.2 | 17.8 | 17.4 | 19.5 | 22.2 | 23.6 | 24.7 | 25.6 |
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.