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Weather in Ward 20, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.0 °C, 10 mm of rain; a normal November has 99 mm. Coldest night 15.1 °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 12 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 | 33.0 | 16.3 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 23.7 | 16.5 | 4.3 |
| 3 | 31.0 | 15.1 | 4.5 |
| 4 | 30.8 | 17.9 | 1.0 |
| 5 | 30.7 | 19.3 | 0.2 |
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 | 145 mm, normal 99 mm |
| December | 113 mm, normal 128 mm |
| January | 360 mm, normal 123 mm |
| February | 48 mm, normal 91 mm |
| March | 240 mm, normal 76 mm |
| April | 93 mm, normal 40 mm |
| May | 12 mm, normal 12 mm |
| June | 4.0 mm, normal 4.9 mm |
| July | 0.5 mm, normal 3.8 mm |
| August | 26 mm, normal 4.6 mm |
| September | 40 mm, normal 14 mm |
| October | 7.1 mm, normal 46 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 537 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 429 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 470 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 439 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 548 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 852 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 592 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 761 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 765 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,013 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 664 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 418 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 498 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 706 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 433 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 858 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 671 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 773 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 777 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 775 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 832 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 530 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 692 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 941 mm (+47% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 537 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 573 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 620 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 454 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 483 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 607 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 673 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 519 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 629 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 528 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 863 mm (+35% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (1,013 mm). Driest: 2002 (418 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.5 °C in November 2024.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 123 | 91 | 76 | 40 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 46 | 99 | 128 |
| Mean °C | 21.2 | 21.1 | 20.0 | 17.6 | 15.2 | 12.7 | 12.3 | 15.0 | 18.4 | 19.8 | 20.4 | 20.9 |
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.