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Weather in Ward 35, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.8 °C, 4.5 mm of rain; a normal November has 76 mm. Coldest night 16.0 °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 5 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 | 33.8 | 16.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 24.7 | 17.4 | 3.7 |
| 3 | 31.6 | 16.0 | 0.6 |
| 4 | 31.7 | 19.5 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 31.7 | 20.4 | 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 | 98 mm, normal 76 mm |
| December | 85 mm, normal 92 mm |
| January | 286 mm, normal 94 mm |
| February | 24 mm, normal 70 mm |
| March | 218 mm, normal 53 mm |
| April | 98 mm, normal 26 mm |
| May | 6.1 mm, normal 8.2 mm |
| June | 3.5 mm, normal 4.0 mm |
| July | 0.1 mm, normal 3.2 mm |
| August | 22 mm, normal 3.1 mm |
| September | 38 mm, normal 11 mm |
| October | 6.3 mm, normal 30 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 401 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 266 mm (-43% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 330 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 284 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 445 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 665 mm (+41% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 423 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 567 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 617 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 776 mm (+65% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 459 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 251 mm (-47% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 371 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 456 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 284 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 569 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 650 mm (+38% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 580 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 549 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 573 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 548 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 392 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 571 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 752 mm (+60% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 325 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 435 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 419 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 315 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 373 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 461 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 529 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 346 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 490 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 351 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 732 mm (+56% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (776 mm). Driest: 2002 (251 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.7 °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 | 94 | 70 | 53 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 30 | 76 | 92 |
| Mean °C | 22.2 | 22.1 | 20.9 | 18.5 | 15.9 | 13.3 | 12.9 | 15.7 | 19.0 | 20.6 | 21.2 | 21.9 |
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.