Climate averages 1991–2020
Soweto weather
in February.
A warm, wet month: the joint 4th 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 Soweto: daytime highs average 24.7°C and nights cool to about 14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 118 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes February a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 00 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Roodepoort (12 km away). In February its highs average 24.3°C, about as warm as Soweto, with 118 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Soweto ranks 85th of 95 for the warmest February highs and joint 85th of 95 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 95 cities is 26.8°C; Soweto is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 23.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 118 mm to 90 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
Soweto climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.0°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 132 | 16.9 | 13.614 h |
| February, selected | 24.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 118 | 14.4 | 13.013 h |
| March | 23.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 90 | 12.8 | 12.312 h |
| April | 21.1°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 45 | 7.3 | 11.511 h |
| May | 19.0°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 18 | 3.1 | 10.811 h |
| June | 16.7°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 8.1 | 1.4 | 10.511 h |
| July | 16.9°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 3.2 | 0.8 | 10.711 h |
| August | 20.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 9.7 | 1.9 | 11.211 h |
| September | 24.2°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 21 | 3.4 | 11.912 h |
| October | 25.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 73 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| November | 24.7°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 99 | 13.9 | 13.413 h |
| December | 24.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 141 | 18.4 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Roodepoort in FebruarySouth Africa · 12 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 14.0°C · 118 mm rain
- Randfontein in FebruarySouth Africa · 18 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 14.5°C · 118 mm rain
- Johannesburg in FebruarySouth Africa · 20 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 13.9°C · 111 mm rain
- Westonaria in FebruarySouth Africa · 22 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 15.2°C · 118 mm rain
- Krugersdorp in FebruarySouth Africa · 22 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 14.3°C · 106 mm rain
- Randburg in FebruarySouth Africa · 24 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 14.9°C · 97 mm rain
- Alberton in FebruarySouth Africa · 26 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 14.9°C · 111 mm rain
- Tokoza in FebruarySouth Africa · 29 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 15.0°C · 102 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 Soweto) is explained once on the Soweto year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Roodepoort, 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.