Climate averages 1991–2020
Pinetown weather
in October.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a warm month in Pinetown: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 47 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ntuzuma (11 km away). In October its highs average 23.7°C, 1.3°C warmer than Pinetown, with 89 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Pinetown ranks 84th of 95 for the warmest October highs and joint 82nd of 95 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 95 cities is 25.4°C; Pinetown is 3.0°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 23.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 89 mm to 96 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
Pinetown climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.9°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 91 | 13.0 | 13.814 h |
| February | 26.3°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 84 | 11.4 | 13.213 h |
| March | 25.6°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 90 | 11.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.9°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 74 | 8.5 | 11.411 h |
| May | 22.8°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 43 | 5.4 | 10.611 h |
| June | 21.3°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 28 | 4.6 | 10.310 h |
| July | 20.7°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 42 | 4.7 | 10.410 h |
| August | 21.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 34 | 5.9 | 11.011 h |
| September | 22.3°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 60 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| October, selected | 22.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 89 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| November | 23.5°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 96 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| December | 24.9°C18.5°C | 18.5°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
October in nearby cities
- Ntuzuma in OctoberSouth Africa · 11 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 15.9°C · 89 mm rain
- Durban in OctoberSouth Africa · 14 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 17.5°C · 89 mm rain
- Mpumalanga in OctoberSouth Africa · 24 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 12.8°C · 88 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in OctoberSouth Africa · 53 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 13.0°C · 92 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in OctoberSouth Africa · 67 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 16.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Richards Bay in OctoberSouth Africa · 161 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 18.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Ladysmith in OctoberSouth Africa · 177 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 12.4°C · 100 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in OctoberSouth Africa · 195 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 12.0°C · 92 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 Pinetown) is explained once on the Pinetown year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Durban 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.