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Weather in Ward 18, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.5 °C, 4.7 mm of rain; a normal November has 80 mm. Coldest night 15.9 °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 | 33.5 | 16.7 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 24.2 | 17.3 | 3.4 |
| 3 | 31.2 | 15.9 | 1.0 |
| 4 | 31.2 | 19.0 | 0.2 |
| 5 | 31.2 | 20.1 | 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 | 102 mm, normal 80 mm |
| December | 90 mm, normal 96 mm |
| January | 315 mm, normal 96 mm |
| February | 28 mm, normal 71 mm |
| March | 210 mm, normal 58 mm |
| April | 91 mm, normal 28 mm |
| May | 6.4 mm, normal 8.9 mm |
| June | 4.0 mm, normal 3.9 mm |
| July | 0.1 mm, normal 3.3 mm |
| August | 21 mm, normal 3.5 mm |
| September | 40 mm, normal 12 mm |
| October | 5.2 mm, normal 34 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 415 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 296 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 355 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 305 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 459 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 673 mm (+36% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 451 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 613 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 628 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 806 mm (+63% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 480 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 271 mm (-45% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 393 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 480 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 306 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 598 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 651 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 621 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 599 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 612 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 598 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 419 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 592 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 760 mm (+54% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 355 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 463 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 438 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 331 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 393 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 476 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 550 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 377 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 520 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 385 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 722 mm (+46% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (806 mm). Driest: 2002 (271 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.2 °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 | 96 | 71 | 58 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 34 | 80 | 96 |
| Mean °C | 22.0 | 21.8 | 20.7 | 18.4 | 15.9 | 13.2 | 12.8 | 15.5 | 18.8 | 20.3 | 20.9 | 21.6 |
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.