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Weather in Ward 21, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.4 °C, 7.8 mm of rain; a normal November has 85 mm. Coldest night 15.6 °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 | 33.4 | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 23.7 | 16.8 | 3.1 |
| 3 | 31.1 | 15.6 | 3.9 |
| 4 | 30.8 | 18.2 | 0.7 |
| 5 | 30.6 | 19.5 | 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 | 121 mm, normal 85 mm |
| December | 99 mm, normal 111 mm |
| January | 356 mm, normal 101 mm |
| February | 38 mm, normal 78 mm |
| March | 213 mm, normal 65 mm |
| April | 79 mm, normal 33 mm |
| May | 8.1 mm, normal 10 mm |
| June | 4.2 mm, normal 4.2 mm |
| July | 0.3 mm, normal 3.6 mm |
| August | 20 mm, normal 4.0 mm |
| September | 43 mm, normal 13 mm |
| October | 6.3 mm, normal 39 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 429 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 394 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 402 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 343 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 477 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 714 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 492 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 682 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 634 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 867 mm (+59% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 555 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 326 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 432 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 578 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 349 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 725 mm (+33% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 616 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 669 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 658 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 675 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 697 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 456 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 627 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 809 mm (+48% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 449 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 490 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 497 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 374 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 447 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 518 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 608 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 447 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 584 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 444 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 734 mm (+34% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (867 mm). Driest: 2002 (326 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.7 °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 | 78 | 65 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 39 | 85 | 111 |
| Mean °C | 21.4 | 21.3 | 20.2 | 17.9 | 15.5 | 12.9 | 12.5 | 15.1 | 18.4 | 19.8 | 20.5 | 21.1 |
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.