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
23°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ NNE 18 km/h
Gusts46 km/h
Humidity 80 %
💧 4.2 mm
Evening
Clear sky
24°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ WSW 5 km/h
Humidity 81 %
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
23°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ SSW 22 km/h
Gusts31 km/h
Humidity 76 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Rain showers
21°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ SW 12 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity 89 %
💧 1.6 mm
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
22°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ SSE 5 km/h
Humidity 58 %
Evening
Overcast
21°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ E 7 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 0.1 mm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Light rain
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ SSW 12 km/h
Gusts25 km/h
Humidity 90 %
💧 1.1 mm
Durban forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Durban climate: what a normal year looks like
The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 14 °C.
From 10 h 13 min of daylight in late June to 14 h 04 min in late December.
A normal year brings roughly 890 mm of rain — less than 57% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 25 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (23 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
27 °C
22 °C
95 mm
Feb
27 °C
22 °C
90 mm
Mar
27 °C
21 °C
98 mm
Apr
25 °C
19 °C
83 mm
May
24 °C
17 °C
49 mm
Jun
23 °C
14 °C
33 mm
Jul
22 °C
14 °C
46 mm
Aug
22 °C
15 °C
39 mm
Sep
23 °C
17 °C
64 mm
Oct
23 °C
18 °C
96 mm
Nov
24 °C
19 °C
101 mm
Dec
25 °C
21 °C
98 mm
Whole year
24 °C
18 °C
890 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 29.86° S, 31.03° 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 Durban: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.511µg/m³
PM1018µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Durban
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Durban, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Durban yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Durban
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:02 Set 16:17
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 Durban
Curious about the weather in Durban on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Durban weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal: 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 20 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.
Expected range today: 17 °C to 24 °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.
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