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Weather in Ward 45, Polokwane
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.1 °C, 4.6 mm of rain; a normal November has 74 mm. Coldest night 16.4 °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 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 | 34.1 | 16.7 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 25.0 | 17.7 | 3.7 |
| 3 | 31.8 | 16.4 | 0.7 |
| 4 | 32.0 | 19.9 | 0.1 |
| 5 | 32.3 | 20.7 | 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 74 mm |
| December | 85 mm, normal 91 mm |
| January | 269 mm, normal 95 mm |
| February | 23 mm, normal 71 mm |
| March | 230 mm, normal 51 mm |
| April | 102 mm, normal 25 mm |
| May | 6.1 mm, normal 7.8 mm |
| June | 3.1 mm, normal 4.1 mm |
| July | 0.1 mm, normal 3.1 mm |
| August | 22 mm, normal 2.7 mm |
| September | 37 mm, normal 10 mm |
| October | 6.9 mm, normal 29 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 404 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 253 mm (-45% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 316 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 280 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 445 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 682 mm (+47% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 418 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 541 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 613 mm (+32% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 772 mm (+66% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 456 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 246 mm (-47% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 361 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 455 mm (-2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 276 mm (-40% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 570 mm (+23% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 654 mm (+41% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 559 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 525 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 551 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 525 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 379 mm (-18% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 560 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 768 mm (+66% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 313 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 423 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 423 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 313 mm (-32% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 364 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 465 mm (+0% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 534 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 329 mm (-29% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 474 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 347 mm (-25% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 752 mm (+62% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2000 (772 mm). Driest: 2002 (246 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.1 °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 | 95 | 71 | 51 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 29 | 74 | 91 |
| Mean °C | 22.6 | 22.4 | 21.3 | 18.9 | 16.2 | 13.5 | 13.2 | 16.0 | 19.3 | 20.9 | 21.6 | 22.3 |
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.