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Weather in Ward 38, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.8 °C, 3.6 mm of rain; a normal November has 79 mm. Coldest night 15.8 °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 | 16.6 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 24.3 | 17.2 | 2.1 |
| 3 | 31.5 | 15.8 | 1.2 |
| 4 | 31.3 | 19.0 | 0.2 |
| 5 | 31.1 | 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 | 97 mm, normal 79 mm |
| December | 86 mm, normal 96 mm |
| January | 317 mm, normal 91 mm |
| February | 25 mm, normal 68 mm |
| March | 198 mm, normal 57 mm |
| April | 84 mm, normal 28 mm |
| May | 5.4 mm, normal 9.1 mm |
| June | 4.5 mm, normal 3.9 mm |
| July | 0.1 mm, normal 3.4 mm |
| August | 19 mm, normal 3.6 mm |
| September | 42 mm, normal 12 mm |
| October | 4.3 mm, normal 34 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 387 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 315 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 359 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 289 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 446 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 637 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 441 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 616 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 592 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 782 mm (+61% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 471 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 260 mm (-46% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 396 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 470 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 298 mm (-39% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 588 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 627 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 616 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 601 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 613 mm (+26% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 602 mm (+24% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 422 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 589 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 722 mm (+49% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 359 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 456 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 415 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 321 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 404 mm (-17% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 459 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 547 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 379 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 534 mm (+10% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 373 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 665 mm (+37% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (782 mm). Driest: 2002 (260 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 | 91 | 68 | 57 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 34 | 79 | 96 |
| Mean °C | 21.9 | 21.8 | 20.7 | 18.3 | 15.8 | 13.2 | 12.8 | 15.5 | 18.7 | 20.1 | 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.