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Weather in Ward 2, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.3 °C, 10 mm of rain; a normal November has 93 mm. Coldest night 15.3 °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 6 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 | 33.3 | 16.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 23.5 | 16.9 | 4.7 |
| 3 | 31.1 | 15.3 | 4.4 |
| 4 | 30.9 | 17.5 | 0.8 |
| 5 | 30.8 | 19.0 | 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 | 132 mm, normal 93 mm |
| December | 91 mm, normal 120 mm |
| January | 357 mm, normal 107 mm |
| February | 38 mm, normal 79 mm |
| March | 232 mm, normal 68 mm |
| April | 78 mm, normal 37 mm |
| May | 12 mm, normal 11 mm |
| June | 3.4 mm, normal 4.5 mm |
| July | 0.4 mm, normal 3.8 mm |
| August | 24 mm, normal 4.3 mm |
| September | 40 mm, normal 13 mm |
| October | 6.4 mm, normal 44 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 470 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 425 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 407 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 391 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 490 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 745 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 502 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 701 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 655 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 947 mm (+62% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 633 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 371 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 488 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 664 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 408 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 839 mm (+43% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 600 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 645 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 713 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 700 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 781 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 447 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 639 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 853 mm (+46% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 504 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 514 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 571 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 435 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 460 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 552 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 632 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 508 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 631 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 487 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 742 mm (+27% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (947 mm). Driest: 2002 (371 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.3 °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 | 107 | 79 | 68 | 37 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 44 | 93 | 120 |
| Mean °C | 21.2 | 21.1 | 20.0 | 17.5 | 14.8 | 12.3 | 11.9 | 14.6 | 18.1 | 19.7 | 20.3 | 20.9 |
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.