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Weather in Ward 2, Elias Motsoaledi
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 35.3 °C, 5.1 mm of rain; a normal November has 106 mm. 1 day reached 35 °C. Coldest night 18.5 °C on 1 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 | 35.3 | 18.5 | 0.5 |
| 2 | 28.0 | 20.4 | 0.9 |
| 3 | 33.1 | 18.8 | 2.7 |
| 4 | 33.2 | 19.3 | 0.9 |
| 5 | 34.2 | 21.4 | 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 | 227 mm, normal 106 mm |
| December | 152 mm, normal 117 mm |
| January | 147 mm, normal 118 mm |
| February | 57 mm, normal 88 mm |
| March | 177 mm, normal 82 mm |
| April | 111 mm, normal 42 mm |
| May | 34 mm, normal 17 mm |
| June | 5.0 mm, normal 5.5 mm |
| July | 0.6 mm, normal 4.7 mm |
| August | 53 mm, normal 6.5 mm |
| September | 42 mm, normal 17 mm |
| October | 2.7 mm, normal 64 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 632 mm (-5% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 415 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 601 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 597 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 695 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 812 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 753 mm (+13% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 629 mm (-6% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 706 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,038 mm (+56% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 707 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 521 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 467 mm (-30% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 687 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 579 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 865 mm (+30% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 505 mm (-24% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 730 mm (+9% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 785 mm (+18% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 776 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 804 mm (+21% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 682 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 671 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 774 mm (+16% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 490 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 642 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 699 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 513 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 581 mm (-13% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 658 mm (-1% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 739 mm (+11% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 568 mm (-15% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 561 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 431 mm (-35% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,195 mm (+79% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,195 mm). Driest: 1992 (415 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 38.1 °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 | 118 | 88 | 82 | 42 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 64 | 106 | 117 |
| Mean °C | 23.3 | 23.2 | 21.8 | 19.0 | 15.8 | 12.6 | 12.6 | 15.8 | 19.9 | 21.4 | 21.9 | 22.8 |
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.