Climate averages 1991–2020

Roodepoort 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 16.4°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 2.3°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 3.2 mm fewer than one day with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Roodepoort · average highYear overview

July is a mild month in Roodepoort: daytime highs average 16.4°C and nights cool to about 2.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 3.2 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 40 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Soweto (12 km away). In July its highs average 16.9°C, 0.5°C warmer than Roodepoort, with 3.2 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Roodepoort ranks joint 87th of 95 for the warmest July highs and joint 21st of 95 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 95 cities is 18.5°C; Roodepoort is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 19.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 3.2 mm to 9.7 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. 051015202530 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

Roodepoort climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Roodepoort, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 24.5°C14.3°C14.3°C13216.913.614 h
February 24.3°C14.0°C14.0°C11814.413.013 h
March 23.0°C12.5°C12.5°C9012.812.312 h
April 20.6°C9.5°C9.5°C457.311.511 h
May 18.5°C6.0°C6.0°C183.110.911 h
June 16.3°C3.0°C3.0°C8.11.410.511 h
July, selected 16.4°C2.3°C2.3°C3.20.810.711 h
August 19.6°C4.9°C4.9°C9.71.911.211 h
September 23.6°C8.5°C8.5°C213.411.912 h
October 24.6°C11.0°C11.0°C7310.412.713 h
November 24.3°C12.4°C12.4°C9913.913.413 h
December 24.4°C13.9°C13.9°C14118.413.714 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Roodepoort

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

Soweto, Westonaria and Randfontein lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.