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Weather in Ward 26, Thulamela
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.7 °C, 0.1 mm of rain; a normal November has 115 mm. Coldest night 16.2 °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 3 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 | 16.2 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 28.9 | 19.5 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 32.8 | 17.8 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 33.2 | 20.1 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 32.9 | 21.5 | 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 | 142 mm, normal 115 mm |
| December | 258 mm, normal 154 mm |
| January | 877 mm, normal 169 mm |
| February | 26 mm, normal 149 mm |
| March | 375 mm, normal 94 mm |
| April | 154 mm, normal 46 mm |
| May | 11 mm, normal 23 mm |
| June | 22 mm, normal 16 mm |
| July | 1.4 mm, normal 20 mm |
| August | 39 mm, normal 16 mm |
| September | 139 mm, normal 33 mm |
| October | 22 mm, normal 53 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 664 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 615 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 802 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 508 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 788 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 1,349 mm (+52% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 851 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 1,168 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 1,189 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,705 mm (+92% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 1,191 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 461 mm (-48% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 722 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 819 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 659 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 1,035 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 919 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 695 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 846 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 1,186 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 774 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 769 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 1,188 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 1,086 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 505 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 733 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 895 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 683 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 838 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 996 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 1,204 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 791 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 1,181 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 629 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,378 mm (+55% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,705 mm). Driest: 2002 (461 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 | 169 | 149 | 94 | 46 | 23 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 33 | 53 | 115 | 154 |
| Mean °C | 23.6 | 23.5 | 22.6 | 20.5 | 18.2 | 16.0 | 15.5 | 17.7 | 20.4 | 21.8 | 22.9 | 23.5 |
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.