11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ NNW 7 km/h
Humidity 60 %
💧 3.3 mm
Evening
Clear sky
23°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NNW 2 km/h
Humidity 42 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
24°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ NW 15 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity 43 %
Evening
Mainly clear
27°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ NW 13 km/h
Gusts31 km/h
Humidity 31 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
26°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ WNW 4 km/h
Humidity 18 %
Evening
Clear sky
29°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ SW 6 km/h
Gusts19 km/h
Humidity 18 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
26°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ N 3 km/h
Humidity 22 %
Brakpan 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)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Brakpan climate: what a normal year looks like
Day and night differ most in June: 19 °C in the afternoon against 3 °C before dawn, a 16 °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 760 mm of rain — less than 67% 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)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
26 °C
16 °C
130 mm
Feb
26 °C
16 °C
108 mm
Mar
24 °C
14 °C
89 mm
Apr
23 °C
11 °C
45 mm
May
21 °C
7 °C
16 mm
Jun
19 °C
3 °C
8 mm
Jul
18 °C
3 °C
4 mm
Aug
21 °C
7 °C
12 mm
Sep
25 °C
11 °C
25 mm
Oct
26 °C
13 °C
83 mm
Nov
26 °C
14 °C
106 mm
Dec
26 °C
15 °C
139 mm
Whole year
23 °C
11 °C
760 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 26.24° S, 28.37° 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 Brakpan: pollution and pollen
4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.536µg/m³
PM1036µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Brakpan
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Brakpan, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Brakpan yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Brakpan
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:03 Set 16:38
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Johannesburg); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Brakpan
Curious about the weather in Brakpan on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Brakpan weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Brakpan, 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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