Climate averages 1991–2020
Cape Town weather
in June.
A mild, wet month: the 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
June is a mild month in Cape Town: daytime highs average 16.9°C and nights cool to about 10.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes June a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 56 min on an average June day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Atlantis (40 km away). In June its highs average 16.5°C, about as warm as Cape Town, with 76 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Cape Town ranks 82nd of 95 for the warmest June highs and 92nd of 95 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 95 cities is 18.5°C; Cape Town is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From June to July, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 16.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 108 mm to 98 mm.
The annual picture
June 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, selected | 16.9°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 108 | 11.1 | 9.910 h |
| July | 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
June in nearby cities
- Atlantis in JuneSouth Africa · 40 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 7.9°C · 76 mm rain
- Somerset West in JuneSouth Africa · 41 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 10.8°C · 138 mm rain
- Stellenbosch in JuneSouth Africa · 41 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 8.6°C · 138 mm rain
- Paarl in JuneSouth Africa · 55 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 8.2°C · 152 mm rain
- Worcester, South Africa in JuneSouth Africa · 100 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 9.3°C · 60 mm rain
- Mossel Bay in JuneSouth Africa · 344 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 10.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Oudtshoorn in JuneSouth Africa · 351 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 5.7°C · 24 mm rain
- George in JuneSouth Africa · 373 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 9.5°C · 39 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.