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Weather in Ward 20, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.6 °C, 0.1 mm of rain; a normal November has 117 mm. Coldest night 16.6 °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 2 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 | 33.6 | 16.6 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.3 | 19.1 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 33.0 | 18.3 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.4 | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.3 | 21.6 | 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 | 148 mm, normal 117 mm |
| December | 276 mm, normal 158 mm |
| January | 946 mm, normal 172 mm |
| February | 28 mm, normal 151 mm |
| March | 390 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 151 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 10 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 21 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.4 mm, normal 20 mm |
| August | 41 mm, normal 16 mm |
| September | 138 mm, normal 33 mm |
| October | 22 mm, normal 51 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 652 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 623 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 819 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 507 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 789 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,379 mm (+54% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 850 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,187 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,221 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,739 mm (+94% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,215 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 446 mm (-50% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 724 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 828 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 657 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,035 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 913 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 675 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 850 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,203 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 781 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 777 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,217 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,108 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 501 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 750 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 906 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 675 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 827 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 1,021 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,256 mm (+40% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 780 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,245 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 621 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,385 mm (+55% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,739 mm). Driest: 2002 (446 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 41.4 °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 | 172 | 151 | 94 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 20 | 16 | 33 | 51 | 117 | 158 |
| Mean °C | 23.9 | 23.8 | 22.9 | 20.8 | 18.5 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 18.0 | 20.7 | 22.1 | 23.2 | 23.8 |
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.