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Weather in Ward 39, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.3 °C, 9.3 mm of rain; a normal November has 93 mm. Coldest night 15.4 °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 2 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 | 33.3 | 16.3 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 23.7 | 16.6 | 3.6 |
| 3 | 31.1 | 15.4 | 4.6 |
| 4 | 30.8 | 18.1 | 0.9 |
| 5 | 30.6 | 19.4 | 0.2 |
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 | 134 mm, normal 93 mm |
| December | 108 mm, normal 120 mm |
| January | 361 mm, normal 109 mm |
| February | 42 mm, normal 83 mm |
| March | 225 mm, normal 70 mm |
| April | 85 mm, normal 37 mm |
| May | 9.7 mm, normal 11 mm |
| June | 4.3 mm, normal 4.6 mm |
| July | 0.4 mm, normal 3.7 mm |
| August | 23 mm, normal 4.4 mm |
| September | 43 mm, normal 14 mm |
| October | 6.6 mm, normal 43 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 477 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 417 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 436 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 387 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 516 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 776 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 533 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 725 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 688 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 936 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 608 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 368 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 475 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 633 mm (+7% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 390 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 783 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 647 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 722 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 721 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 732 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 767 mm (+29% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 500 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 659 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 863 mm (+46% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 498 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 536 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 548 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 412 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 469 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 561 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 644 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 484 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 615 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 487 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 789 mm (+33% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (936 mm). Driest: 2002 (368 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.5 °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 | 109 | 83 | 70 | 37 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 43 | 93 | 120 |
| Mean °C | 21.3 | 21.2 | 20.1 | 17.8 | 15.4 | 12.9 | 12.5 | 15.1 | 18.4 | 19.8 | 20.4 | 21.0 |
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.