Climate averages 1991–2020
Thembisa weather
in November.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a warm month in Thembisa: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 13.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 88 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 22 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Midrand (11 km away). In November its highs average 25.0°C, about as warm as Thembisa, with 85 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Thembisa ranks 51st of 95 for the warmest November highs and 46th of 95 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 95 cities is 25.8°C; Thembisa is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 25.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 88 mm to 116 mm.
The annual picture
November 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
Thembisa climate table
| 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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Midrand in NovemberSouth Africa · 11 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 13.2°C · 85 mm rain
- Centurion in NovemberSouth Africa · 16 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 14.6°C · 90 mm rain
- Benoni in NovemberSouth Africa · 23 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 13.0°C · 99 mm rain
- Randburg in NovemberSouth Africa · 25 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 13.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Germiston in NovemberSouth Africa · 25 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 13.1°C · 99 mm rain
- Etwatwa in NovemberSouth Africa · 27 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 13.3°C · 104 mm rain
- Pretoria in NovemberSouth Africa · 28 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 15.2°C · 90 mm rain
- Johannesburg in NovemberSouth Africa · 29 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 12.3°C · 100 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 Thembisa) is explained once on the Thembisa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.