Climate averages 1991–2020

Klerksdorp weather
in July.

A mild, very dry month: the 11th warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 18.8°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 3.2°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 3.6 mm fewer than one day with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Klerksdorp · average highYear overview

July is a mild month in Klerksdorp: daytime highs average 18.8°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 3.6 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes July a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 37 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Stilfontein (10 km away). In July its highs average 18.7°C, about as warm as Klerksdorp, with 3.6 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Klerksdorp ranks joint 36th of 95 for the warmest July highs and joint 30th of 95 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 95 cities is 18.5°C; Klerksdorp is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 22.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 3.6 mm to 10 mm.

The annual picture

July 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. 05101520253035 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

Klerksdorp climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Klerksdorp, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 28.8°C17.2°C17.2°C10114.713.614 h
February 28.1°C16.7°C16.7°C8312.513.013 h
March 26.8°C15.0°C15.0°C7011.112.312 h
April 24.0°C11.4°C11.4°C386.511.511 h
May 21.4°C7.2°C7.2°C182.710.811 h
June 18.7°C3.7°C3.7°C8.21.510.510 h
July, selected 18.8°C3.2°C3.2°C3.60.810.611 h
August 22.2°C6.0°C6.0°C101.511.211 h
September 26.6°C10.3°C10.3°C142.711.912 h
October 28.2°C13.4°C13.4°C599.012.713 h
November 28.6°C14.9°C14.9°C7311.813.413 h
December 29.0°C16.7°C16.7°C10215.813.814 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

Distance from Klerksdorp

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 Klerksdorp) is explained once on the Klerksdorp year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

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