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Weather in Ward 18, Ba-Phalaborwa
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.9 °C, 1.5 mm of rain; a normal November has 74 mm. Coldest night 19.6 °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 28 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 | 34.9 | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 28.0 | 21.5 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 34.1 | 19.6 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 34.9 | 22.1 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 34.8 | 23.3 | 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 | 101 mm, normal 74 mm |
| December | 99 mm, normal 102 mm |
| January | 610 mm, normal 108 mm |
| February | 14 mm, normal 89 mm |
| March | 208 mm, normal 55 mm |
| April | 71 mm, normal 28 mm |
| May | 6.2 mm, normal 11 mm |
| June | 8.9 mm, normal 6.3 mm |
| July | 0.5 mm, normal 7.1 mm |
| August | 29 mm, normal 6.6 mm |
| September | 51 mm, normal 14 mm |
| October | 4.1 mm, normal 29 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 382 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 492 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 399 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 268 mm (-49% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 456 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 839 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 523 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 712 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 694 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,050 mm (+98% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 670 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 211 mm (-60% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 432 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 586 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 400 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 651 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 515 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 425 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 464 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 631 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 472 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 444 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 872 mm (+65% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 661 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 296 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 337 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 542 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 326 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 539 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 595 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 627 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 390 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 665 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 320 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 689 mm (+30% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,050 mm). Driest: 2002 (211 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 42.6 °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 | 108 | 89 | 55 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 29 | 74 | 102 |
| Mean °C | 25.2 | 25.3 | 24.4 | 22.0 | 19.5 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 18.8 | 21.6 | 23.1 | 24.2 | 25.1 |
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.