Climate averages 1991–2020
Pretoria weather
in February.
A warm, wet month: one of the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a warm month in Pretoria: daytime highs average 27.6°C and nights cool to about 17.0°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 93 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes February a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 59 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Centurion (13 km away). In February its highs average 26.6°C, 1.0°C cooler than Pretoria, with 93 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Pretoria ranks joint 34th of 95 for the warmest February highs and joint 50th of 95 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 95 cities is 26.8°C; Pretoria is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 26.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 93 mm to 83 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
Pretoria climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 103 | 14.7 | 13.514 h |
| February, selected | 27.6°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 93 | 11.9 | 13.013 h |
| March | 26.1°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 83 | 10.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.6°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 37 | 6.2 | 11.512 h |
| May | 21.6°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 15 | 2.6 | 10.911 h |
| June | 19.0°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 7.2 | 1.1 | 10.611 h |
| July | 19.2°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 3.2 | 0.7 | 10.711 h |
| August | 22.5°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 7.0 | 1.4 | 11.211 h |
| September | 26.6°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 17 | 2.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 27.5°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 63 | 8.4 | 12.713 h |
| November | 27.1°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 90 | 12.4 | 13.413 h |
| December | 27.3°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 113 | 15.2 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Centurion in FebruarySouth Africa · 13 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 16.3°C · 93 mm rain
- Ga-Rankuwa in FebruarySouth Africa · 24 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 17.6°C · 82 mm rain
- Midrand in FebruarySouth Africa · 27 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 14.9°C · 97 mm rain
- Thembisa in FebruarySouth Africa · 28 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 15.2°C · 97 mm rain
- Soshanguve in FebruarySouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 18.1°C · 82 mm rain
- Hammanskraal in FebruarySouth Africa · 39 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 18.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Brits in FebruarySouth Africa · 43 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 18.5°C · 89 mm rain
- Randburg in FebruarySouth Africa · 43 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 14.9°C · 97 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 Pretoria) is explained once on the Pretoria year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Centurion lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.