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Weather in Ward 5, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.6 °C, 6.9 mm of rain; a normal November has 79 mm. Coldest night 15.5 °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 | 33.6 | 16.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 23.2 | 16.7 | 3.2 |
| 3 | 31.3 | 15.5 | 3.2 |
| 4 | 30.9 | 17.7 | 0.4 |
| 5 | 30.6 | 19.2 | 0.1 |
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 | 117 mm, normal 79 mm |
| December | 84 mm, normal 111 mm |
| January | 368 mm, normal 99 mm |
| February | 33 mm, normal 78 mm |
| March | 228 mm, normal 60 mm |
| April | 69 mm, normal 31 mm |
| May | 9.4 mm, normal 9.7 mm |
| June | 4.0 mm, normal 4.1 mm |
| July | 0.2 mm, normal 3.8 mm |
| August | 21 mm, normal 3.7 mm |
| September | 44 mm, normal 12 mm |
| October | 7.4 mm, normal 35 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 390 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 422 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 374 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 319 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 438 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 703 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 457 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 651 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 603 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 838 mm (+59% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 564 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 316 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 412 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 598 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 325 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 782 mm (+48% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 564 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 597 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 612 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 632 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 679 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 396 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 611 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 788 mm (+50% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 449 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 445 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 509 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 383 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 437 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 513 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 589 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 458 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 619 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 430 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 697 mm (+32% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (838 mm). Driest: 2002 (316 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.9 °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 | 99 | 78 | 60 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 35 | 79 | 111 |
| Mean °C | 21.4 | 21.3 | 20.2 | 18.0 | 15.6 | 13.0 | 12.5 | 15.1 | 18.3 | 19.7 | 20.5 | 21.2 |
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.