Climate averages 1991–2020
Midrand 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 Midrand: daytime highs average 25.4°C and nights cool to about 11.8°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 9 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 Thembisa (11 km away). In October its highs average 25.7°C, about as warm as Midrand, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Midrand ranks joint 49th of 95 for the warmest October highs and joint 42nd of 95 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 95 cities is 25.4°C; Midrand is level with that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 25.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 85 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
Midrand climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.4°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 108 | 15.0 | 13.614 h |
| February | 25.3°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 97 | 12.4 | 13.013 h |
| March | 24.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 80 | 11.1 | 12.312 h |
| April | 21.6°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 37 | 6.4 | 11.511 h |
| May | 19.5°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 14 | 2.5 | 10.911 h |
| June | 17.1°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 6.5 | 1.1 | 10.511 h |
| July | 17.3°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 2.5 | 0.6 | 10.711 h |
| August | 20.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 7.5 | 1.4 | 11.211 h |
| September | 24.4°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 19 | 2.8 | 11.912 h |
| October, selected | 25.4°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 61 | 9.3 | 12.713 h |
| November | 25.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 85 | 12.5 | 13.413 h |
| December | 25.2°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 117 | 16.4 | 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
- Thembisa in OctoberSouth Africa · 11 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 12.2°C · 65 mm rain
- Centurion in OctoberSouth Africa · 15 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 13.2°C · 63 mm rain
- Randburg in OctoberSouth Africa · 18 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 11.9°C · 61 mm rain
- Johannesburg in OctoberSouth Africa · 26 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 10.9°C · 75 mm rain
- Pretoria in OctoberSouth Africa · 27 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 13.9°C · 63 mm rain
- Germiston in OctoberSouth Africa · 27 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 11.8°C · 76 mm rain
- Benoni in OctoberSouth Africa · 31 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 11.7°C · 76 mm rain
- Roodepoort in OctoberSouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 11.0°C · 73 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 Midrand) is explained once on the Midrand year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Randburg lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.