Weather in Port Elizabeth, month by month

Warmest month
February, 22.2
Coldest month
July, 15.8
Wettest month
March, 50 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Port Elizabeth is February at 22.2 degrees and the coldest is July at 15.8, a swing of 6.4 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 March, about 50 mm, and lightest in June at roughly 23 mm. Over a full year the cell above Port Elizabeth collects around 436 mm.

The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are January, February, March, 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 February at 79 percent, and the windiest month is October at 4.8 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 55 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 -33.96, 25.61, covering Port Elizabeth 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 Port Elizabeth, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January21.938 mm78%
February22.233 mm79%
March21.350 mm79%
April19.638 mm77%
May18.128 mm74%
June16.323 mm70%
July15.834 mm71%
August1645 mm73%
September16.929 mm75%
October18.143 mm77%
November19.142 mm76%
December20.734 mm78%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Port Elizabeth?

February, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Port Elizabeth?

July, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Port Elizabeth?

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

Weather in Pretoria, month by month

Same data, same method, different place.

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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))