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
20°
Feels like 22°
Wind↑ NNE 12 km/h
Humidity 54 %
💧 0.3 mm
Evening
Clear sky
25°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ NW 7 km/h
Gusts15 km/h
Humidity 39 %
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
25°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ N 8 km/h
Gusts14 km/h
Humidity 42 %
Evening
Clear sky
29°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ WNW 6 km/h
Gusts12 km/h
Humidity 30 %
💧 0.1 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
27°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ NNW 13 km/h
Gusts24 km/h
Humidity 34 %
Evening
Clear sky
31°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ WSW 5 km/h
Humidity 16 %
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
27°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ NNE 12 km/h
Humidity 43 %
Pretoria forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +3.6° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Pretoria climate: what a normal year looks like
Day and night differ most in June: 20 °C in the afternoon against 6 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.
From June to August, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 5 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 660 mm of rain — less than 78% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (28 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
28 °C
18 °C
108 mm
Feb
28 °C
18 °C
97 mm
Mar
26 °C
16 °C
87 mm
Apr
24 °C
13 °C
40 mm
May
23 °C
9 °C
17 mm
Jun
20 °C
6 °C
8 mm
Jul
20 °C
6 °C
4 mm
Aug
23 °C
9 °C
8 mm
Sep
27 °C
13 °C
18 mm
Oct
28 °C
15 °C
65 mm
Nov
28 °C
16 °C
94 mm
Dec
28 °C
17 °C
118 mm
Whole year
25 °C
13 °C
660 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 25.74° S, 28.19° 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 Pretoria: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.517µg/m³
PM1018µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Pretoria
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Pretoria, 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 Pretoria yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Pretoria
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:02 Set 16:40
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 Pretoria
Curious about the weather in Pretoria on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Pretoria weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Pretoria, Gauteng: 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 24 °C (feels like 25 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.
Expected range today: 19 °C to 31 °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.
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