Climate averages 1991–2020
Cape Town weather
in July.
A mild, wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a mild month in Cape Town: daytime highs average 16.4°C and nights cool to about 9.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes July a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 07 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Atlantis (40 km away). In July its highs average 16.1°C, about as warm as Cape Town, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Cape Town ranks joint 87th of 95 for the warmest July highs and 92nd of 95 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 95 cities is 18.5°C; Cape Town is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs stay level at 16.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 98 mm to 87 mm.
The annual picture
July in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Cape Town climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.6°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 15 | 2.8 | 14.114 h |
| February | 25.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 14 | 3.0 | 13.313 h |
| March | 24.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 16 | 3.3 | 12.312 h |
| April | 22.0°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 43 | 5.2 | 11.311 h |
| May | 19.3°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 67 | 8.4 | 10.410 h |
| June | 16.9°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 108 | 11.1 | 9.910 h |
| July, selected | 16.4°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 98 | 9.9 | 10.110 h |
| August | 16.5°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 87 | 10.3 | 10.911 h |
| September | 17.9°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 51 | 8.2 | 11.912 h |
| October | 20.4°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 33 | 5.8 | 12.913 h |
| November | 22.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 30 | 5.1 | 13.914 h |
| December | 24.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 17 | 3.6 | 14.414 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
July in nearby cities
- Atlantis in JulySouth Africa · 40 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 7.1°C · 69 mm rain
- Somerset West in JulySouth Africa · 41 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 9.9°C · 122 mm rain
- Stellenbosch in JulySouth Africa · 41 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 7.7°C · 122 mm rain
- Paarl in JulySouth Africa · 55 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 7.3°C · 130 mm rain
- Worcester, South Africa in JulySouth Africa · 100 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 8.4°C · 59 mm rain
- Mossel Bay in JulySouth Africa · 344 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.5°C · 38 mm rain
- Oudtshoorn in JulySouth Africa · 351 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 5.0°C · 26 mm rain
- George in JulySouth Africa · 373 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 8.9°C · 40 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Cape Town) is explained once on the Cape Town year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.