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Emalahleni weather

Mpumalanga · 373,403 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:11

Clear sky
28°
Clear sky
Feels like 29°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
9 km/h
Humidity
30 %
Pressure
1016 hPa
Clouds
0 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:16 Set 18:17 Day 13 h 1 min UV 11 · Extreme

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
21°18°
Feels like 23°
Wind ↑ NE 11 km/h
Gusts 38 km/h
Humidity 51 %
20:00
Clear sky
21°
NE 11
23:00
Clear sky
18°
ENE 6

Emalahleni forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.0° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
12°18°24°29°35°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed26°15°Thu 29 Oct: max 29° · min 18° · normal 20.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 14° · normal 20.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 32° · min 16° · normal 20.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 33° · min 17° · normal 20.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 31° · min 19° · normal 20.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 30° · min 17° · normal 20.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 26° · min 15° · normal 20.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu12°23°34°33°14°010
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Emalahleni climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in June: 19 °C in the afternoon against 4 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 4 °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)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan26 °C16 °C131 mm
Feb26 °C16 °C102 mm
Mar25 °C15 °C99 mm
Apr23 °C12 °C47 mm
May22 °C8 °C17 mm
Jun19 °C4 °C7 mm
Jul19 °C4 °C6 mm
Aug22 °C8 °C10 mm
Sep26 °C12 °C21 mm
Oct26 °C14 °C79 mm
Nov26 °C15 °C111 mm
Dec26 °C16 °C132 mm
Whole year24 °C11 °C760 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 25.87° S, 29.23° 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 Emalahleni: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.540µg/m³
PM1041µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Emalahleni

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

Moon over Emalahleni

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:58 Set 16:35
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 Emalahleni

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

Emalahleni weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Emalahleni, Mpumalanga: 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 29 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 29 °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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations