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Cape Town weather

Western Cape · 4,772,846 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:11

Air: Good

20°

Clear sky

Feels like 24°C

Wind

20 km/h

Gusts

20 km/h

Humidity

71 %

Pressure

1015 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 05:48 Set 19:11 Day 13 h 23 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

18°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ S 25 km/h

Gusts 41 km/h

Humidity 83 %

20:00

18°

S 25

23:00

18°

S 18

Cape Town forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.8° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Cape Town climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 510 mm of rain — less than 86% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 8 °C.

From 9 h 53 min of daylight in late June to 14 h 25 min in late December.

Afternoons climb to 25 °C only from December to March, with a typical peak of 27 °C in January.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 21 °C, against a usual 21 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	27 °C	18 °C	13 mm
Feb	27 °C	18 °C	13 mm
Mar	26 °C	16 °C	14 mm
Apr	23 °C	14 °C	38 mm
May	20 °C	11 °C	59 mm
Jun	17 °C	9 °C	92 mm
Jul	17 °C	9 °C	84 mm
Aug	17 °C	9 °C	74 mm
Sep	19 °C	11 °C	46 mm
Oct	21 °C	13 °C	30 mm
Nov	23 °C	14 °C	27 mm
Dec	25 °C	16 °C	16 mm
Whole year	22 °C	13 °C	510 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 33.93° S, 18.42° 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 Cape Town: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.59µg/m³

PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Cape Town

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

Moon over Cape Town

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:08 Set 16:57

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 Cape Town

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

Cape Town weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Cape Town, Western Cape: 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 20 °C (feels like 24 °C) and the wind blows at 20 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 24 °C and a dry sky. 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.

Cape Town weather data for developers

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