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Weather in Ward 9, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.3 °C, 7.0 mm of rain; a normal November has 83 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 5 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 | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 24.0 | 17.0 | 4.6 |
| 3 | 30.9 | 15.5 | 1.9 |
| 4 | 31.0 | 18.7 | 0.4 |
| 5 | 31.1 | 19.8 | 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 | 115 mm, normal 83 mm |
| December | 98 mm, normal 103 mm |
| January | 331 mm, normal 106 mm |
| February | 35 mm, normal 78 mm |
| March | 223 mm, normal 62 mm |
| April | 94 mm, normal 31 mm |
| May | 8.2 mm, normal 9.2 mm |
| June | 3.6 mm, normal 4.1 mm |
| July | 0.2 mm, normal 3.3 mm |
| August | 23 mm, normal 3.7 mm |
| September | 38 mm, normal 12 mm |
| October | 6.4 mm, normal 35 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 457 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 315 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 377 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 343 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 480 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 729 mm (+37% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 493 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 645 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 681 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 863 mm (+63% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 523 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 310 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 403 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 539 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 338 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 666 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 660 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 656 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 631 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 640 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 641 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 435 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 615 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 825 mm (+56% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 388 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 483 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 494 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 363 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 404 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 518 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 582 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 410 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 534 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 429 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 793 mm (+49% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (863 mm). Driest: 2002 (310 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 | 106 | 78 | 62 | 31 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 35 | 83 | 103 |
| Mean °C | 21.7 | 21.6 | 20.5 | 18.1 | 15.6 | 13.0 | 12.6 | 15.4 | 18.7 | 20.2 | 20.8 | 21.4 |
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.