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Weather in Ward 1, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.7 °C, 11 mm of rain; a normal November has 107 mm. Coldest night 15.7 °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 13 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 | 17.3 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 24.8 | 17.5 | 5.0 |
| 3 | 31.7 | 15.7 | 5.4 |
| 4 | 31.5 | 17.8 | 0.8 |
| 5 | 31.7 | 19.4 | 0.2 |
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 | 152 mm, normal 107 mm |
| December | 105 mm, normal 131 mm |
| January | 348 mm, normal 123 mm |
| February | 45 mm, normal 86 mm |
| March | 255 mm, normal 78 mm |
| April | 96 mm, normal 43 mm |
| May | 13 mm, normal 12 mm |
| June | 3.6 mm, normal 5.1 mm |
| July | 0.4 mm, normal 4.0 mm |
| August | 30 mm, normal 4.8 mm |
| September | 39 mm, normal 14 mm |
| October | 5.5 mm, normal 52 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 582 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 437 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 472 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 477 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 571 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 810 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 595 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 791 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 750 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,095 mm (+66% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 718 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 438 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 539 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 727 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 505 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 919 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 656 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 731 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 834 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 791 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 888 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 511 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 680 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 948 mm (+43% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 541 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 580 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 648 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 492 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 502 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 624 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 745 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 568 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 654 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 545 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 868 mm (+31% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,095 mm). Driest: 1992 (437 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.3 °C in November 2024.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 123 | 86 | 78 | 43 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 52 | 107 | 131 |
| Mean °C | 21.8 | 21.7 | 20.6 | 18.1 | 15.4 | 12.8 | 12.4 | 15.3 | 19.0 | 20.5 | 21.0 | 21.5 |
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.