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Weather in Ward 23, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.5 °C, 7.0 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 4 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 | 16.6 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 23.8 | 16.8 | 3.0 |
| 3 | 31.3 | 15.6 | 3.3 |
| 4 | 31.0 | 18.4 | 0.6 |
| 5 | 30.7 | 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 | 115 mm, normal 85 mm |
| December | 97 mm, normal 108 mm |
| January | 350 mm, normal 100 mm |
| February | 35 mm, normal 76 mm |
| March | 209 mm, normal 64 mm |
| April | 80 mm, normal 32 mm |
| May | 7.5 mm, normal 10 mm |
| June | 4.3 mm, normal 4.1 mm |
| July | 0.3 mm, normal 3.5 mm |
| August | 20 mm, normal 4.0 mm |
| September | 43 mm, normal 13 mm |
| October | 5.7 mm, normal 38 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 425 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 379 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 397 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 336 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 475 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 702 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 488 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 675 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 629 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 855 mm (+59% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 539 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 315 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 426 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 558 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 343 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 699 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 622 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 666 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 653 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 668 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 682 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 454 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 622 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 796 mm (+48% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 433 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 487 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 482 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 365 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 440 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 507 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 596 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 433 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 573 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 432 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 720 mm (+34% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (855 mm). Driest: 2002 (315 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 | 100 | 76 | 64 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 38 | 85 | 108 |
| Mean °C | 21.5 | 21.4 | 20.3 | 18.0 | 15.6 | 13.0 | 12.6 | 15.2 | 18.4 | 19.9 | 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.