Climate averages 1991–2020

Thembisa weather
in February.

A warm, wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 25.5°C Daytime mean, February

Average low 15.2°C Night-time mean, February

Rainfall 97 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

February is a warm month in Thembisa: daytime highs average 25.5°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 97 mm of rain on roughly 13 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 Midrand (11 km away). In February its highs average 25.3°C, about as warm as Thembisa, with 97 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Thembisa ranks joint 66th of 95 for the warmest February highs and joint 57th of 95 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 95 cities is 26.8°C; Thembisa is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.

From February to March, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 24.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 97 mm to 80 mm.

The annual picture

February in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Thembisa climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Thembisa, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	25.6°C15.4°C	15.4°C	110	15.4	13.614 h
February, selected	25.5°C15.2°C	15.2°C	97	12.7	13.013 h
March	24.2°C13.8°C	13.8°C	80	10.8	12.312 h
April	21.8°C10.8°C	10.8°C	37	6.4	11.511 h
May	19.8°C7.2°C	7.2°C	14	2.6	10.911 h
June	17.4°C4.2°C	4.2°C	6.5	1.2	10.511 h
July	17.6°C3.5°C	3.5°C	2.7	0.6	10.711 h
August	20.7°C6.1°C	6.1°C	8.3	1.6	11.211 h
September	24.8°C9.9°C	9.9°C	19	2.9	11.912 h
October	25.7°C12.2°C	12.2°C	65	9.6	12.713 h
November	25.3°C13.6°C	13.6°C	88	13.2	13.413 h
December	25.5°C15.0°C	15.0°C	116	16.4	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

Distance from Thembisa

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