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Weather in Ward 16, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.5 °C, 5.8 mm of rain; a normal November has 85 mm. Coldest night 15.8 °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 3 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 | 33.5 | 16.8 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 24.1 | 17.1 | 3.5 |
| 3 | 31.3 | 15.8 | 1.8 |
| 4 | 31.1 | 18.8 | 0.4 |
| 5 | 31.1 | 20.0 | 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 | 111 mm, normal 85 mm |
| December | 96 mm, normal 104 mm |
| January | 334 mm, normal 101 mm |
| February | 32 mm, normal 75 mm |
| March | 212 mm, normal 63 mm |
| April | 89 mm, normal 31 mm |
| May | 7.3 mm, normal 9.7 mm |
| June | 4.2 mm, normal 4.1 mm |
| July | 0.2 mm, normal 3.3 mm |
| August | 22 mm, normal 3.9 mm |
| September | 41 mm, normal 13 mm |
| October | 5.0 mm, normal 37 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 441 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 330 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 383 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 335 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 482 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 707 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 486 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 657 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 652 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 852 mm (+61% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 517 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 301 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 421 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 524 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 337 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 650 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 659 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 666 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 651 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 656 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 655 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 451 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 617 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 793 mm (+50% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 396 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 494 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 473 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 356 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 416 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 504 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 580 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 410 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 549 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 423 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 742 mm (+40% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (852 mm). Driest: 2002 (301 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.1 °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 | 101 | 75 | 63 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 37 | 85 | 104 |
| Mean °C | 21.8 | 21.7 | 20.6 | 18.3 | 15.9 | 13.2 | 12.8 | 15.5 | 18.7 | 20.2 | 20.8 | 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.