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Weather in Ward 8, Elias Motsoaledi
This month here (1 to 5 November): hottest day 34.6 °C, 5.9 mm of rain; a normal November has 104 mm. Coldest night 18.0 °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 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 | 34.6 | 18.0 | 0.6 |
| 2 | 26.9 | 19.7 | 0.6 |
| 3 | 32.4 | 18.5 | 3.6 |
| 4 | 32.5 | 18.8 | 1.1 |
| 5 | 33.3 | 20.2 | 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 | 199 mm, normal 104 mm |
| December | 149 mm, normal 112 mm |
| January | 165 mm, normal 117 mm |
| February | 52 mm, normal 87 mm |
| March | 181 mm, normal 81 mm |
| April | 104 mm, normal 41 mm |
| May | 36 mm, normal 16 mm |
| June | 4.6 mm, normal 5.3 mm |
| July | 0.8 mm, normal 5.1 mm |
| August | 49 mm, normal 6.7 mm |
| September | 35 mm, normal 17 mm |
| October | 2.7 mm, normal 63 mm |
Every year since 1991
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| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 629 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 1992 | 407 mm (-38% on the normal) |
| 1993 | 593 mm (-9% on the normal) |
| 1994 | 591 mm (-10% on the normal) |
| 1995 | 665 mm (+1% on the normal) |
| 1996 | 797 mm (+22% on the normal) |
| 1997 | 736 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 1998 | 610 mm (-7% on the normal) |
| 1999 | 682 mm (+4% on the normal) |
| 2000 | 1,037 mm (+58% on the normal) |
| 2001 | 688 mm (+5% on the normal) |
| 2002 | 509 mm (-22% on the normal) |
| 2003 | 455 mm (-31% on the normal) |
| 2004 | 668 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2005 | 575 mm (-12% on the normal) |
| 2006 | 859 mm (+31% on the normal) |
| 2007 | 480 mm (-27% on the normal) |
| 2008 | 731 mm (+12% on the normal) |
| 2009 | 767 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2010 | 766 mm (+17% on the normal) |
| 2011 | 777 mm (+19% on the normal) |
| 2012 | 671 mm (+2% on the normal) |
| 2013 | 673 mm (+3% on the normal) |
| 2014 | 753 mm (+15% on the normal) |
| 2015 | 486 mm (-26% on the normal) |
| 2016 | 631 mm (-4% on the normal) |
| 2017 | 694 mm (+6% on the normal) |
| 2018 | 506 mm (-23% on the normal) |
| 2019 | 565 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2020 | 654 mm (-0% on the normal) |
| 2021 | 710 mm (+8% on the normal) |
| 2022 | 564 mm (-14% on the normal) |
| 2023 | 552 mm (-16% on the normal) |
| 2024 | 437 mm (-33% on the normal) |
| 2025 | 1,146 mm (+75% on the normal) |
Wettest: 2025 (1,146 mm). Driest: 1992 (407 mm). Hottest day since our daily figures start in 2023: 37.5 °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 | 117 | 87 | 81 | 41 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 63 | 104 | 112 |
| Mean °C | 22.8 | 22.7 | 21.4 | 18.6 | 15.3 | 12.2 | 12.1 | 15.4 | 19.4 | 21.0 | 21.4 | 22.4 |
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.