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Randburg weather

Gauteng · 337,053 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:11

Clear sky
29°
Clear sky
Feels like 29°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
8 km/h
Humidity
27 %
Pressure
1016 hPa
Clouds
0 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:20 Set 18:22 Day 13 h 1 min UV 11 · Extreme

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
24°21°
Feels like 24°
Wind ↑ NNE 17 km/h
Gusts 26 km/h
Humidity 36 %
20:00
Clear sky
24°
SE 2
23:00
Clear sky
21°
NNE 17

Randburg forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
14°19°25°30°35°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed30°16°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 19° · normal 20.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 31° · min 16° · normal 20.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 33° · min 17° · normal 20.6°Sun 1 Nov: max 33° · min 19° · normal 20.6°Mon 2 Nov: max 31° · min 20° · normal 20.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 30° · min 18° · normal 20.6°Wed 4 Nov: max 30° · min 16° · normal 20.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu13°24°34°33°15°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Randburg 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.

From June to August, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 50% of the annual total; December by itself averages 132 mm.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 4 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 5 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan26 °C16 °C123 mm
Feb26 °C16 °C107 mm
Mar25 °C14 °C89 mm
Apr23 °C12 °C43 mm
May21 °C8 °C17 mm
Jun19 °C4 °C8 mm
Jul18 °C4 °C3 mm
Aug21 °C7 °C9 mm
Sep25 °C11 °C22 mm
Oct26 °C14 °C71 mm
Nov26 °C14 °C96 mm
Dec26 °C16 °C132 mm
Whole year24 °C11 °C720 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 26.09° S, 28.00° 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 Randburg: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.533µg/m³
PM1033µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Randburg

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

Moon over Randburg

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:04 Set 16:40
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 Randburg

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

Randburg weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Randburg, 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 29 °C (feels like 29 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 30 °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