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Botshabelo weather

Free State · 309,714 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:10

Air: Good Hot · 1 d

21°

Clear sky

Feels like 21°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

10 km/h

Humidity

47 %

Pressure

1017 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 05:21 Set 18:31 Day 13 h 10 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

21°19°

Feels like 21°

Wind ↑ ENE 4 km/h

Gusts 10 km/h

Humidity 47 %

20:00

21°

ENE 3

23:00

19°

SE 4

Botshabelo forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.8° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Botshabelo climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in August: 20 °C in the afternoon against 4 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

A normal year brings roughly 650 mm of rain — less than 79% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 1 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (27 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	17 °C	106 mm
Feb	29 °C	16 °C	92 mm
Mar	26 °C	14 °C	86 mm
Apr	24 °C	10 °C	55 mm
May	20 °C	6 °C	23 mm
Jun	17 °C	1 °C	14 mm
Jul	16 °C	1 °C	10 mm
Aug	20 °C	4 °C	19 mm
Sep	25 °C	9 °C	18 mm
Oct	27 °C	12 °C	56 mm
Nov	28 °C	13 °C	79 mm
Dec	29 °C	15 °C	92 mm
Whole year	24 °C	10 °C	650 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 29.27° S, 26.73° 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 Botshabelo: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.53µg/m³

PM103µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Botshabelo

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

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

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

Moon over Botshabelo

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:19 Set 16:36

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 Botshabelo

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

Botshabelo weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Botshabelo, 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 21 °C (feels like 21 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 30 °C and a dry sky; 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

Bloemfontein 52 km 21°

Maseru 74 km 28°

Welkom 143 km 21°

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