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Welkom weather

Free State · 431,944 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:11

Air: Fair Very hot · 3 d Low storm risk · Mon

28°

Clear sky

Feels like 29°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

9 km/h

Humidity

30 %

Pressure

1016 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 05:23 Set 18:30 Day 13 h 6 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

23°20°

Feels like 23°

Wind ↑ NW 5 km/h

Humidity 21 %

20:00

20°

NW 5

23:00

23°

S 5

Welkom 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)

Hourly detail

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

Welkom climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in August: 21 °C in the afternoon against 5 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

A normal year brings roughly 590 mm of rain — less than 83% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Typical highs of 30 °C or more are reached in January only, at 30 °C.

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	30 °C	18 °C	97 mm
Feb	29 °C	17 °C	79 mm
Mar	27 °C	16 °C	71 mm
Apr	25 °C	11 °C	49 mm
May	22 °C	6 °C	21 mm
Jun	18 °C	2 °C	13 mm
Jul	18 °C	2 °C	7 mm
Aug	21 °C	5 °C	16 mm
Sep	26 °C	10 °C	15 mm
Oct	28 °C	13 °C	53 mm
Nov	29 °C	15 °C	70 mm
Dec	29 °C	16 °C	96 mm
Whole year	25 °C	11 °C	590 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 27.98° S, 26.74° 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 Welkom: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.518µg/m³

PM1019µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Welkom

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

Moon over Welkom

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:15 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 Welkom

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

Welkom weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Welkom, Free State: 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 28 °C (feels like 29 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 20 °C to 32 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Bloemfontein 137 km 29°

Botshabelo 143 km 28°

Maseru 166 km 28°

Vereeniging 187 km 27°

Evaton 195 km 28°

Soweto 220 km 28°

Roodepoort 231 km 21°

Krugersdorp 234 km 29°

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