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Weather in Ward 4, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.2 °C, 7.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 89 mm. Coldest night 15.1 °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 4 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 | 33.2 | 15.9 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 22.4 | 16.6 | 3.3 |
| 3 | 30.6 | 15.1 | 2.9 |
| 4 | 30.4 | 17.2 | 0.8 |
| 5 | 30.0 | 18.8 | 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 | 131 mm, normal 89 mm |
| December | 89 mm, normal 128 mm |
| January | 417 mm, normal 112 mm |
| February | 33 mm, normal 91 mm |
| March | 257 mm, normal 69 mm |
| April | 75 mm, normal 36 mm |
| May | 12 mm, normal 12 mm |
| June | 5.3 mm, normal 5.2 mm |
| July | 0.1 mm, normal 5.1 mm |
| August | 22 mm, normal 5.2 mm |
| September | 50 mm, normal 15 mm |
| October | 7.1 mm, normal 39 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 452 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 510 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 434 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 377 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 531 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 796 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 550 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 734 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 698 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 978 mm (+62% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 670 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 368 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 476 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 662 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 406 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 912 mm (+51% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 637 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 644 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 681 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 730 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 755 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 463 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 701 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 852 mm (+41% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 491 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 501 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 589 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 463 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 506 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 594 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 684 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 532 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 707 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 460 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 765 mm (+26% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (978 mm). Driest: 2002 (368 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.6 °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 | 112 | 91 | 69 | 36 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 39 | 89 | 128 |
| Mean °C | 20.9 | 20.8 | 19.7 | 17.5 | 15.2 | 12.7 | 12.2 | 14.6 | 17.7 | 19.1 | 20.0 | 20.7 |
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.