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Soweto weather

Gauteng · 1,695,047 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:27

Air: Very poor Moderate storm risk · Thu, Sat, Mon

21°

Clear sky

Feels like 21°C

Wind

8 km/h

Gusts

15 km/h

Humidity

36 %

Pressure

1018 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 05:21 Set 18:23 Day 13 h 2 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

21°

Feels like 21°

Wind ↑ WNW 8 km/h

Gusts 15 km/h

Humidity 36 %

23:00

21°

WNW 8

Soweto forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.4° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Soweto climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in June: 18 °C in the afternoon against 3 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 51% of the annual total; December by itself averages 146 mm.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 3 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	26 °C	16 °C	138 mm
Feb	26 °C	16 °C	120 mm
Mar	24 °C	14 °C	95 mm
Apr	23 °C	11 °C	48 mm
May	21 °C	7 °C	19 mm
Jun	18 °C	3 °C	9 mm
Jul	18 °C	3 °C	4 mm
Aug	21 °C	7 °C	11 mm
Sep	25 °C	11 °C	23 mm
Oct	26 °C	13 °C	78 mm
Nov	26 °C	14 °C	105 mm
Dec	26 °C	15 °C	146 mm
Whole year	23 °C	11 °C	800 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 26.27° S, 27.86° 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 Soweto: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.550µg/m³

PM1051µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Soweto

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

Moon over Soweto

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:05 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 Soweto

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

Soweto weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Soweto, 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 21 °C (feels like 21 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 28 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Roodepoort 12 km 21°

Johannesburg 20 km 21°

Krugersdorp 22 km 23°

Vereeniging 46 km 20°

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