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Weather in Ward 36, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.7 °C, 4.0 mm of rain; a normal November has 82 mm. Coldest night 15.7 °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 | 33.7 | 16.7 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 24.2 | 17.2 | 2.5 |
| 3 | 31.5 | 15.7 | 1.2 |
| 4 | 31.3 | 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 | 101 mm, normal 82 mm |
| December | 90 mm, normal 99 mm |
| January | 322 mm, normal 94 mm |
| February | 27 mm, normal 70 mm |
| March | 202 mm, normal 60 mm |
| April | 86 mm, normal 30 mm |
| May | 5.9 mm, normal 9.5 mm |
| June | 4.5 mm, normal 4.0 mm |
| July | 0.1 mm, normal 3.4 mm |
| August | 20 mm, normal 3.8 mm |
| September | 42 mm, normal 12 mm |
| October | 4.1 mm, normal 36 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 409 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 319 mm (-37% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 369 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 307 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 463 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 663 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 458 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 634 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 614 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 810 mm (+61% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 487 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 274 mm (-46% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 412 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 486 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 314 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 605 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 646 mm (+28% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 640 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 628 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 635 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 626 mm (+25% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 438 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 601 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 744 mm (+48% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 373 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 477 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 434 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 334 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 409 mm (-19% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 474 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 558 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 389 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 540 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 392 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 689 mm (+37% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (810 mm). Driest: 2002 (274 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 36.3 °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 | 60 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 36 | 82 | 99 |
| Mean °C | 21.9 | 21.8 | 20.7 | 18.3 | 15.8 | 13.2 | 12.8 | 15.5 | 18.7 | 20.2 | 20.9 | 21.5 |
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.