11-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 28°
Wind↑ SSW 3 km/h
Humidity 67 %
Evening
Mainly clear
22°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ WSW 28 km/h
Gusts36 km/h
Humidity 86 %
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
22°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ SW 28 km/h
Gusts35 km/h
Humidity 68 %
Evening
Overcast
21°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ WSW 19 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity 81 %
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
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ SW 14 km/h
Humidity 68 %
Evening
Clear sky
20°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ WSW 21 km/h
Humidity 64 %
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
20°
Feels like 22°
Wind↑ WSW 26 km/h
Humidity 59 %
East London 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)
East London climate: what a normal year looks like
The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 12 °C.
From 9 h 58 min of daylight in late June to 14 h 20 min in late December.
Afternoons climb to 25 °C only from January to March, with a typical peak of 26 °C in February.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 23 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (21 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
26 °C
20 °C
82 mm
Feb
26 °C
20 °C
86 mm
Mar
26 °C
19 °C
87 mm
Apr
23 °C
17 °C
76 mm
May
23 °C
15 °C
27 mm
Jun
21 °C
12 °C
26 mm
Jul
21 °C
12 °C
30 mm
Aug
20 °C
12 °C
41 mm
Sep
22 °C
14 °C
52 mm
Oct
21 °C
15 °C
71 mm
Nov
23 °C
16 °C
82 mm
Dec
24 °C
18 °C
82 mm
Whole year
23 °C
16 °C
740 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 33.00° S, 27.92° 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 East London: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.56µg/m³
PM107µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around East London
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around East London, 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 East London yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over East London
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:25 Set 16:20
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 East London
Curious about the weather in East London on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
East London weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in East London, Eastern 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 21 °C (feels like 27 °C) and the wind blows at 30 km/h.
Expected range today: 20 °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.
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