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Bloemfontein weather

Free State · 556,637 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:09

Air: Good Very hot · 2 d Moderate storm risk · Thu

29°

Clear sky

Feels like 30°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

10 km/h

Humidity

26 %

Pressure

1016 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 05:24 Set 18:33 Day 13 h 9 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

22°21°

Feels like 22°

Wind ↑ N 9 km/h

Humidity 22 %

20:00

21°

N 7

23:00

22°

SE 9

Bloemfontein forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.7° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bloemfontein climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in August: 21 °C in the afternoon against 4 °C before dawn, a 17 °C swing.

A normal year brings roughly 570 mm of rain — less than 84% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in December and January; the typical peak is 31 °C in January.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (27 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	31 °C	18 °C	90 mm
Feb	30 °C	17 °C	81 mm
Mar	28 °C	15 °C	77 mm
Apr	25 °C	11 °C	52 mm
May	21 °C	6 °C	23 mm
Jun	18 °C	1 °C	13 mm
Jul	17 °C	1 °C	9 mm
Aug	21 °C	4 °C	16 mm
Sep	26 °C	9 °C	17 mm
Oct	27 °C	12 °C	46 mm
Nov	29 °C	14 °C	69 mm
Dec	30 °C	16 °C	80 mm
Whole year	25 °C	10 °C	570 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 29.12° S, 26.21° 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 Bloemfontein: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.52µg/m³

PM103µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bloemfontein

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bloemfontein, 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 Bloemfontein yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Bloemfontein

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:20 Set 16:39

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 Bloemfontein

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

Bloemfontein weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bloemfontein, Free State: 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 29 °C (feels like 30 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 20 °C to 31 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. 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.

Other big cities nearby

Botshabelo 52 km 28°

Maseru 125 km 28°

Welkom 137 km 28°

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