A hot and windy Thursday is expected with scattered showers and cloudy conditions in some regions. (Manuel Breva Colmeiro/Getty Images)
The South African Weather Service has forecast hot and windy conditions across several provinces, but the rest of the country can mostly expect cloudy skies.
The weather in your region
Gauteng: Fine and warm but hot in the north.
- Pretoria 14°C — 31°C
- Johannesburg 13°C — 30°C
- Vereeniging 12°C — 30°C
Mpumalanga: Fine and windy in the south, otherwise warm to hot but very hot in places in the Lowveld.
- Mbombela 15°C — 35°C
- Ermelo 10°C — 29°C
- Emalahleni 10°C — 30°C
- Standerton 14°C — 29°C
- Skukuza 14°C — 39°C
Limpopo: Fine and hot but very hot along the Lowveld and the escarpment.
- Polokwane 17°C — 32°C
- Phalaborwa 22°C — 38°C
- Tzaneen 19°C — 37°C
- Musina 19°C — 37°C
- Lephalale 19°C — 36°C
- Mokopane 19°C — 33°C
Nort West: Fine, windy and warm to hot.
- Klerksdorp 13°C — 30°C
- Potchefstroom 12°C — 30°C
- Mahikeng 14°C — 31°C
- Rustenburg 14°C — 34°C
- Vryburg 12°C — 30°C
Free State: Fine, windy and warm but cool in the south.
- Bloemfontein 10°C — 22°C
- Welkom 11°C — 28°C
- Bethlehem 6°C — 24°C
Northern Cape: Cloudy in the west and south in the morning, otherwise fine, windy and cool to warm but cold in places over the southern high ground. It will become partly cloudy by the afternoon.
Coastal wind – light and moderate northerly and north-westerly.
- Upington 9°C — 24°C
- Kimberley 10°C — 23°C
- De Aar 5°C — 20°C
- Alexander Bay 10°C — 21°C
- Springbok 7°C — 22°C
- Calvinia 3°C — 19°C
- Sutherland -1°C — 17°C
Western Cape: Partly cloudy in the north, otherwise cloudy and cold to cool with isolated showers and rain along the south-west coast and adjacent interior, as well as in places in the east.
Coastal wind – light and variable along the West Coast at first, otherwise fresh to strong westerly to north-westerly becoming southerly to south-westerly from the afternoon.
- Cape Town 13°C — 19°C
- Vredendal 12°C — 22°C
- Riversdale 11°C — 21°C
- George 13°C — 19°C
- Worcester 9°C — 22°C
- Beaufort West 10°C — 20°C
- Oudtshoorn 12°C — 23°C
Eastern Cape: Cloudy and cool with isolated showers and rain south of Somerset-East but scattered to widespread in parts along the coast.
Coastal wind – fresh to strong westerly to south-westerly.
Partly cloudy conditions are expected in the eastern half of the province’s north, otherwise cloudy and cool.
Isolated showers and rain can be expected east of Butterworth and south of Queenstown, but scattered to widespread in parts along the coast.
Coastal wind – moderate south-westerly becoming strong by the late morning.
- Gqeberha 13°C — 19°C
- Makhanda 10°C — 17°C
- Cradock 10°C — 20°C
- Graaff-Reinet 9°C — 20°C
- East London 14°C — 21°C
- Port St Johns 15°C — 24°C
- Umtata 11°C — 25°C
- Komani 10°C — 19°C
- Qonce 11°C — 19°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog patches over the eastern interior, otherwise fine and warm to hot but very hot in places in the north-east.
Coastal wind – moderate to fresh northerly to north-easterly in the early morning, becoming fresh to strong southerly to south-westerly south of Durban from the south by the late morning spreading northwards towards mid-day.
- Durban 16°C — 28°C
- Richard’s Bay 17°C — 32°C
- Pietermaritzburg 13°C — 31°C
- Ladysmith 11°C — 30°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
