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Weather in Ward 17, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.4 °C, 8.2 mm of rain; a normal November has 95 mm. Coldest night 15.4 °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 2 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 | 33.4 | 16.3 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 24.0 | 16.6 | 3.6 |
| 3 | 31.4 | 15.4 | 3.7 |
| 4 | 31.1 | 18.5 | 0.8 |
| 5 | 30.9 | 19.7 | 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 | 131 mm, normal 95 mm |
| December | 108 mm, normal 120 mm |
| January | 353 mm, normal 111 mm |
| February | 39 mm, normal 83 mm |
| March | 224 mm, normal 72 mm |
| April | 90 mm, normal 38 mm |
| May | 9.3 mm, normal 11 mm |
| June | 4.5 mm, normal 4.6 mm |
| July | 0.4 mm, normal 3.6 mm |
| August | 23 mm, normal 4.5 mm |
| September | 43 mm, normal 14 mm |
| October | 5.5 mm, normal 44 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 494 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 401 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 443 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 396 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 532 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 785 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 546 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 733 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 706 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 950 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 605 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 369 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 487 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 623 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 398 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 763 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 675 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 745 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 743 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 748 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 775 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 518 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 667 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 867 mm (+45% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 492 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 555 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 547 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 413 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 467 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 560 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 638 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 475 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 609 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 485 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 792 mm (+32% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (950 mm). Driest: 2002 (369 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 | 111 | 83 | 72 | 38 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 44 | 95 | 120 |
| Mean °C | 21.5 | 21.4 | 20.3 | 18.0 | 15.6 | 13.0 | 12.6 | 15.3 | 18.6 | 20.0 | 20.6 | 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.