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Benoni weather

Gauteng · 605,344 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:08

Clear sky
28°
Clear sky
Feels like 28°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
9 km/h
Humidity
27 %
Pressure
1016 hPa
Clouds
1 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:19 Set 18:21 Day 13 h 2 min UV 11 · Extreme

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
24°22°
Feels like 24°
Wind ↑ N 9 km/h
Gusts 16 km/h
Humidity 24 %
20:00
Clear sky
22°
SSE 7
23:00
Clear sky
24°
N 9

Benoni forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.9° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
13°18°24°29°34°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed28°16°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 19° · normal 19.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 31° · min 15° · normal 19.7°Sat 31 Oct: max 32° · min 17° · normal 19.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 32° · min 19° · normal 19.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 28° · min 18° · normal 19.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 28° · min 17° · normal 19.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 28° · min 16° · normal 19.7°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu14°24°34°32°15°019
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Benoni climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in June: 19 °C in the afternoon against 4 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 3 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 750 mm of rain — less than 68% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan26 °C16 °C129 mm
Feb26 °C16 °C107 mm
Mar24 °C14 °C88 mm
Apr23 °C11 °C44 mm
May21 °C7 °C16 mm
Jun19 °C4 °C8 mm
Jul18 °C3 °C4 mm
Aug21 °C7 °C11 mm
Sep25 °C11 °C24 mm
Oct26 °C13 °C80 mm
Nov26 °C14 °C103 mm
Dec26 °C15 °C136 mm
Whole year23 °C11 °C750 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 26.19° S, 28.32° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Benoni: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.532µg/m³
PM1032µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Benoni

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Benoni, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Benoni yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Benoni

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:03 Set 16:38
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Johannesburg); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Benoni

Curious about the weather in Benoni on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Benoni weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Benoni, Gauteng: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 28 °C (feels like 28 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 30 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations