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Weather in Ward 40, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 33.0 °C, 6.5 mm of rain; a normal November has 87 mm. Coldest night 14.9 °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 | 33.0 | 16.1 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 24.0 | 16.7 | 4.4 |
| 3 | 30.6 | 14.9 | 1.6 |
| 4 | 31.0 | 18.1 | 0.3 |
| 5 | 31.2 | 19.3 | 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 | 124 mm, normal 87 mm |
| December | 101 mm, normal 113 mm |
| January | 331 mm, normal 125 mm |
| February | 48 mm, normal 89 mm |
| March | 228 mm, normal 69 mm |
| April | 95 mm, normal 34 mm |
| May | 10 mm, normal 9.4 mm |
| June | 3.1 mm, normal 4.4 mm |
| July | 0.2 mm, normal 3.4 mm |
| August | 27 mm, normal 3.9 mm |
| September | 33 mm, normal 13 mm |
| October | 7.2 mm, normal 37 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 520 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 343 mm (-42% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 421 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 406 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 497 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 816 mm (+39% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 583 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 683 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 768 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 949 mm (+61% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 593 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 375 mm (-36% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 410 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 653 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 388 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 789 mm (+34% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 650 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 707 mm (+20% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 696 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 673 mm (+14% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 723 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 454 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 657 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 923 mm (+57% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 431 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 511 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 601 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 416 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 424 mm (-28% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 575 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 625 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 467 mm (-21% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 540 mm (-8% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 480 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 869 mm (+48% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (949 mm). Driest: 1992 (343 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 35.6 °C in November 2024.
A normal year here (1991 to 2020)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain mm | 125 | 89 | 69 | 34 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 37 | 87 | 113 |
| Mean °C | 21.4 | 21.2 | 20.1 | 17.7 | 15.3 | 12.7 | 12.3 | 15.1 | 18.6 | 20.1 | 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.