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Weather in Ward 44, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.5 °C, 4.1 mm of rain; a normal November has 71 mm. Coldest night 16.6 °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 6 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 | 34.5 | 17.1 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 25.3 | 18.0 | 3.5 |
| 3 | 32.3 | 16.6 | 0.6 |
| 4 | 32.7 | 20.3 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 33.0 | 21.0 | 0.0 |
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 | 96 mm, normal 71 mm |
| December | 86 mm, normal 86 mm |
| January | 262 mm, normal 93 mm |
| February | 24 mm, normal 67 mm |
| March | 221 mm, normal 48 mm |
| April | 95 mm, normal 24 mm |
| May | 5.6 mm, normal 7.4 mm |
| June | 2.7 mm, normal 3.8 mm |
| July | 0.0 mm, normal 2.9 mm |
| August | 23 mm, normal 2.5 mm |
| September | 34 mm, normal 10 mm |
| October | 7.3 mm, normal 27 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 394 mm (-11% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 236 mm (-47% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 292 mm (-34% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 276 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 433 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 662 mm (+50% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 416 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 512 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 563 mm (+27% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 734 mm (+66% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 441 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 230 mm (-48% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 340 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 428 mm (-3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 260 mm (-41% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 544 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 624 mm (+41% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 516 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 490 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 501 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 497 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 352 mm (-20% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 543 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 772 mm (+75% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 275 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 400 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 416 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 303 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 340 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 462 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 498 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 303 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 447 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 325 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 767 mm (+74% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2014 (772 mm). Driest: 2002 (230 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.8 °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 | 93 | 67 | 48 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 27 | 71 | 86 |
| Mean °C | 23.2 | 23.0 | 21.9 | 19.4 | 16.7 | 13.9 | 13.6 | 16.4 | 19.9 | 21.6 | 22.3 | 22.9 |
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.