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Pietermaritzburg weather

KwaZulu-Natal · 839,327 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:17

Air: Fair Very hot · 2 d Low storm risk · Sun

16°

Clear sky

Feels like 16°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

5 km/h

Humidity

88 %

Pressure

1023 hPa

Clouds

8 %

Storm

Rise 05:06 Set 18:17 Day 13 h 10 min UV 8 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

16°13°

Feels like 16°

Wind ↑ ENE 4 km/h

Humidity 88 %

20:00

16°

ENE 4

23:00

13°

NE 3

Pietermaritzburg 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)

Pietermaritzburg climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in June: 21 °C in the afternoon against 7 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is June, when nights average 7 °C.

From 10 h 14 min of daylight in late June to 14 h 03 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 26 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (23 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	26 °C	17 °C	146 mm
Feb	26 °C	17 °C	123 mm
Mar	26 °C	16 °C	107 mm
Apr	24 °C	14 °C	66 mm
May	23 °C	10 °C	33 mm
Jun	21 °C	7 °C	24 mm
Jul	21 °C	7 °C	31 mm
Aug	22 °C	9 °C	38 mm
Sep	25 °C	12 °C	61 mm
Oct	23 °C	13 °C	103 mm
Nov	24 °C	14 °C	125 mm
Dec	25 °C	16 °C	141 mm
Whole year	24 °C	13 °C	1,000 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 29.62° S, 30.39° 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 Pietermaritzburg: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.516µg/m³

PM1020µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Pietermaritzburg

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Pietermaritzburg, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Pietermaritzburg yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Pietermaritzburg

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:04 Set 16:20

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 Pietermaritzburg

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

Pietermaritzburg weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Pietermaritzburg, 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 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 13 °C to 25 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; 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.

Other big cities nearby

Durban 67 km 20°

Newcastle 212 km 19°

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