Climate averages 1991–2020
Centurion weather
in October.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a warm month in Centurion: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 13.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 41 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pretoria (13 km away). In October its highs average 27.5°C, 0.8°C warmer than Centurion, with 63 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Centurion ranks 29th of 95 for the warmest October highs and joint 45th of 95 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 95 cities is 25.4°C; Centurion is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 63 mm to 90 mm.
The annual picture
October 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
Centurion climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.7°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 103 | 14.7 | 13.614 h |
| February | 26.6°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 93 | 11.9 | 13.013 h |
| March | 25.3°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 83 | 10.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 22.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 37 | 6.2 | 11.511 h |
| May | 20.8°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 15 | 2.6 | 10.911 h |
| June | 18.4°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 7.2 | 1.1 | 10.511 h |
| July | 18.6°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 3.2 | 0.7 | 10.711 h |
| August | 21.7°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 7.0 | 1.4 | 11.211 h |
| September | 25.8°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 17 | 2.5 | 11.912 h |
| October, selected | 26.7°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 63 | 8.4 | 12.713 h |
| November | 26.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 90 | 12.4 | 13.413 h |
| December | 26.5°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 113 | 15.2 | 13.714 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
October in nearby cities
- Pretoria in OctoberSouth Africa · 13 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 13.9°C · 63 mm rain
- Midrand in OctoberSouth Africa · 15 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 11.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Thembisa in OctoberSouth Africa · 16 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 12.2°C · 65 mm rain
- Randburg in OctoberSouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 11.9°C · 61 mm rain
- Ga-Rankuwa in OctoberSouth Africa · 33 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 14.4°C · 56 mm rain
- Benoni in OctoberSouth Africa · 39 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 11.7°C · 76 mm rain
- Germiston in OctoberSouth Africa · 40 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 11.8°C · 76 mm rain
- Etwatwa in OctoberSouth Africa · 40 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 12.0°C · 83 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 Centurion) is explained once on the Centurion year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pretoria lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.