Weather in Durban, month by month

Warmest month
February, 25
Coldest month
August, 20
Wettest month
November, 122 mm
Year
2001-2020
Weather in Johannesburg, month by month

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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Durban is February at 25 degrees and the coldest is August at 20, a swing of 5.1 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in November, about 122 mm, and lightest in June at roughly 27 mm. Over a full year the cell above Durban collects around 887 mm.

The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. That band is this page's own definition of mild and is stated so you can disagree with it rather than guess at it.

Humidity peaks in December at 83 percent, and the windiest month is October at 6.4 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 69 per cent of the year total falls in October, November, December, January, February and March.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at -29.86, 31.03, covering Durban on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Durban, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January24.5107 mm82%
February2584 mm81%
March24.790 mm80%
April23.465 mm77%
May22.340 mm73%
June20.827 mm69%
July2042 mm70%
August2036 mm74%
September20.465 mm78%
October21100 mm81%
November21.9122 mm82%
December23.3110 mm83%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Durban?

February, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Durban?

August, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Durban?

November carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Johannesburg, month by month

Same data, same method, different place.

Travel budget calculator

Your own numbers, worked out on the page.

Related pages

Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))