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Soshanguve weather

Gauteng · 872,309 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:16

Clear sky
26°
Clear sky
Feels like 27°C
Wind
11 km/h
Gusts
12 km/h
Humidity
32 %
Pressure
1016 hPa
Clouds
0 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:21 Set 18:21 Day 13 h 0 min UV 11 · Extreme

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
26°22°
Feels like 27°
Wind ↑ ENE 25 km/h
Gusts 36 km/h
Humidity 32 %
20:00
Clear sky
26°
NE 11
23:00
Clear sky
22°
ENE 25

Soshanguve forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.3° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
16°22°27°33°38°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed34°18°Thu 29 Oct: max 31° · min 21° · normal 23.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 32° · min 18° · normal 23.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 34° · min 19° · normal 23.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 36° · min 21° · normal 23.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 34° · min 22° · normal 23.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 34° · min 20° · normal 23.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 34° · min 18° · normal 23.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu15°26°37°36°17°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Soshanguve 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.

A normal year brings roughly 610 mm of rain — less than 82% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 6 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 5 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan30 °C19 °C101 mm
Feb30 °C19 °C86 mm
Mar28 °C17 °C80 mm
Apr26 °C14 °C38 mm
May24 °C10 °C16 mm
Jun21 °C6 °C7 mm
Jul21 °C6 °C3 mm
Aug24 °C10 °C6 mm
Sep28 °C14 °C16 mm
Oct29 °C17 °C58 mm
Nov30 °C18 °C88 mm
Dec29 °C19 °C111 mm
Whole year27 °C14 °C610 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 25.47° S, 28.10° 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 Soshanguve: 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 Soshanguve

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

Moon over Soshanguve

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:02 Set 16:41
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 Soshanguve

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

Soshanguve weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Soshanguve, 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 26 °C (feels like 27 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

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