Climate averages 1991–2020
Pietermaritzburg weather
in February.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a warm month in Pietermaritzburg: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 17.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 113 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes February a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 08 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mpumalanga (32 km away). In February its highs average 25.9°C, 0.7°C cooler than Pietermaritzburg, with 88 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Pietermaritzburg ranks joint 47th of 95 for the warmest February highs and joint 81st of 95 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 95 cities is 26.8°C; Pietermaritzburg is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 25.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 113 mm to 96 mm.
The annual picture
February 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
Pietermaritzburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 134 | 18.0 | 13.814 h |
| February, selected | 26.6°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 113 | 15.0 | 13.113 h |
| March | 25.9°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 96 | 14.3 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.9°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 58 | 9.7 | 11.411 h |
| May | 22.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 29 | 5.1 | 10.711 h |
| June | 20.7°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 20 | 3.4 | 10.310 h |
| July | 20.7°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 28 | 3.8 | 10.410 h |
| August | 22.5°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 32 | 5.9 | 11.111 h |
| September | 24.0°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 56 | 9.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 23.9°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 92 | 15.4 | 12.813 h |
| November | 24.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 116 | 17.2 | 13.614 h |
| December | 25.8°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 129 | 19.2 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Mpumalanga in FebruarySouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 17.4°C · 88 mm rain
- Pinetown in FebruarySouth Africa · 53 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.9°C · 84 mm rain
- Ntuzuma in FebruarySouth Africa · 55 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 20.5°C · 84 mm rain
- Durban in FebruarySouth Africa · 67 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 22.1°C · 84 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in FebruarySouth Africa · 93 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 21.3°C · 96 mm rain
- Ladysmith in FebruarySouth Africa · 132 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 16.7°C · 143 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in FebruarySouth Africa · 162 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 15.9°C · 129 mm rain
- Richards Bay in FebruarySouth Africa · 185 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 22.6°C · 95 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 Pietermaritzburg) is explained once on the Pietermaritzburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.