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Rustenburg weather

North West · 373,695 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:17

Clear sky
26°
Clear sky
Feels like 26°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
17 km/h
Humidity
31 %
Pressure
1016 hPa
Clouds
0 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:24 Set 18:25 Day 13 h 0 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
26°21°
Feels like 26°
Wind ↑ NNW 4 km/h
Gusts 17 km/h
Humidity 31 %
23:00
Clear sky
21°
WSW 4

Rustenburg forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
13°19°25°30°36°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed34°15°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 21° · normal 22.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 32° · min 17° · normal 22.7°Sat 31 Oct: max 34° · min 18° · normal 22.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 34° · min 20° · normal 22.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 32° · min 21° · normal 22.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 32° · min 18° · normal 22.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 34° · min 15° · normal 22.7°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu14°25°36°34°15°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Rustenburg climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in June: 21 °C in the afternoon against 6 °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 51% of the annual total; December by itself averages 117 mm.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 5 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 33 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan29 °C19 °C99 mm
Feb29 °C19 °C94 mm
Mar27 °C17 °C76 mm
Apr25 °C14 °C37 mm
May24 °C9 °C19 mm
Jun21 °C6 °C8 mm
Jul20 °C5 °C3 mm
Aug24 °C9 °C7 mm
Sep28 °C13 °C15 mm
Oct29 °C16 °C52 mm
Nov30 °C17 °C79 mm
Dec29 °C18 °C117 mm
Whole year26 °C13 °C610 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 25.67° S, 27.24° 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 Rustenburg: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1014µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Rustenburg

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

Moon over Rustenburg

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:06 Set 16:44
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 Rustenburg

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

Rustenburg weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Rustenburg, North West: 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 26 °C (feels like 26 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 30 °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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations