Climate averages 1991–2020

Alberton weather
in February.

A warm, wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 25.2°C Daytime mean, February
Average low 14.9°C Night-time mean, February
Rainfall 111 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Alberton · average highYear overview

February is a warm month in Alberton: daytime highs average 25.2°C and nights cool to about 14.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 111 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes February a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 00 min on an average February day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Germiston (7 km away). In February its highs average 25.0°C, about as warm as Alberton, with 102 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Alberton ranks joint 72nd of 95 for the warmest February highs and joint 78th of 95 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 95 cities is 26.8°C; Alberton is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From February to March, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 111 mm to 89 mm.

The annual picture

February in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Alberton climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Alberton, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 25.4°C15.2°C15.2°C13216.413.614 h
February, selected 25.2°C14.9°C14.9°C11114.113.013 h
March 24.0°C13.3°C13.3°C8912.712.312 h
April 21.7°C10.3°C10.3°C457.311.511 h
May 19.6°C6.8°C6.8°C172.910.811 h
June 17.3°C3.8°C3.8°C7.81.310.511 h
July 17.5°C3.0°C3.0°C3.00.810.711 h
August 20.7°C5.7°C5.7°C9.82.011.211 h
September 24.7°C9.5°C9.5°C223.711.912 h
October 25.6°C11.9°C11.9°C7510.712.713 h
November 25.2°C13.3°C13.3°C10014.013.413 h
December 25.4°C14.8°C14.8°C13818.013.714 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

February in nearby cities

Distance from Alberton

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Alberton) is explained once on the Alberton year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Johannesburg lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.