Climate averages 1991–2020
Durban weather
in July.
A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a mild month in Durban: daytime highs average 21.4°C and nights cool to about 13.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 42 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 25 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pinetown (14 km away). In July its highs average 20.7°C, 0.6°C cooler than Durban, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Durban ranks 6th of 95 for the warmest July highs and joint 86th of 95 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 95 cities is 18.5°C; Durban is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.
From July to August, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 22.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 42 mm to 34 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
Durban climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.6°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 91 | 13.0 | 13.814 h |
| February | 27.0°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 84 | 11.4 | 13.213 h |
| March | 26.3°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 90 | 11.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 24.7°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 74 | 8.5 | 11.411 h |
| May | 23.5°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 43 | 5.4 | 10.611 h |
| June | 22.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 28 | 4.6 | 10.310 h |
| July, selected | 21.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 42 | 4.7 | 10.410 h |
| August | 22.0°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 34 | 5.9 | 11.011 h |
| September | 22.5°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 60 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 22.9°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 89 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| November | 24.1°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 96 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| December | 25.5°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 94 | 13.1 | 14.014 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
- Pinetown in JulySouth Africa · 14 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 10.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Ntuzuma in JulySouth Africa · 15 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 10.8°C · 42 mm rain
- Mpumalanga in JulySouth Africa · 38 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 6.9°C · 33 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in JulySouth Africa · 64 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.7°C · 41 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in JulySouth Africa · 67 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 6.5°C · 28 mm rain
- Richards Bay in JulySouth Africa · 154 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.9°C · 47 mm rain
- Ladysmith in JulySouth Africa · 189 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 3.8°C · 16 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in JulySouth Africa · 203 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 5.4°C · 14 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 Durban) is explained once on the Durban year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pinetown and Ntuzuma lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.