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Weather in Ward 25, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.7 °C, 0.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 120 mm. Coldest night 17.4 °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 | 33.7 | 17.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 29.1 | 19.9 | 0.2 |
| 3 | 33.2 | 18.8 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.6 | 21.2 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.4 | 22.5 | 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 | 162 mm, normal 120 mm |
| December | 276 mm, normal 163 mm |
| January | 927 mm, normal 177 mm |
| February | 28 mm, normal 154 mm |
| March | 377 mm, normal 95 mm |
| April | 128 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 10 mm, normal 24 mm |
| June | 19 mm, normal 15 mm |
| July | 1.2 mm, normal 19 mm |
| August | 34 mm, normal 15 mm |
| September | 112 mm, normal 31 mm |
| October | 20 mm, normal 49 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 659 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 637 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 832 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 522 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 794 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,429 mm (+57% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 853 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,208 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,260 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,763 mm (+94% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,239 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 439 mm (-52% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 725 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 835 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 659 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,061 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 918 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 665 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 873 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,234 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 800 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 793 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,226 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,148 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 504 mm (-44% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 773 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 915 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 678 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 833 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 963 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,210 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 736 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,222 mm (+35% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 575 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,338 mm (+47% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,763 mm). Driest: 2002 (439 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 40.8 °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 | 177 | 154 | 95 | 46 | 24 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 31 | 49 | 120 | 163 |
| Mean °C | 23.6 | 23.6 | 22.8 | 20.7 | 18.6 | 16.4 | 15.9 | 18.0 | 20.6 | 22.0 | 23.0 | 23.6 |
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.