A dry stretch in the City Bowl
Molteno Reservoir reported no measurable rain on the 4 days with a bulletin in the last 5 days.
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Cape Town: daily rainfall log
The strip below shows one reading a day for the selected station over the last 14 days of SAWS bulletins.
About average
Measured over 1 Nov to 2 Nov.
No long-term average for this gauge.
Rain was recorded on 2 of the 13 days with a bulletin, amounting to 53.0 mm in all. No bulletin was published on 1 day, which is treated as unknown and left out of the count.
- Tuesday 20 October Station reported no rain on this day
- Wednesday 21 October 43.0 mm
- Thursday 22 October 10.0 mm
- Friday 23 October Station reported no rain on this day
- Saturday 24 October Station reported no rain on this day
- Sunday 25 October Station reported no rain on this day
- Monday 26 October Station reported no rain on this day
- Tuesday 27 October Station reported no rain on this day
- Wednesday 28 October Station reported no rain on this day
- Thursday 29 October Station reported no rain on this day
- Friday 30 October SAWS published no bulletin on this day
- Saturday 31 October Station reported no rain on this day
- Sunday 1 November Station reported no rain on this day
- Monday 2 November Station reported no rain on this day
- No rain: SAWS lists only the stations where rain fell
- Unknown: no bulletin that day, left out of the total
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| Date | Rainfall |
|---|---|
| Mon 2 Nov | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Sun 1 Nov | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Sat 31 Oct | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Fri 30 Oct | SAWS published no bulletin on this day |
| Thu 29 Oct | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Wed 28 Oct | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Tue 27 Oct | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Mon 26 Oct | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Sun 25 Oct | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Sat 24 Oct | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Fri 23 Oct | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
| Thu 22 Oct | 10.0 mm |
| Wed 21 Oct | 43.0 mm |
| Tue 20 Oct | 0.0 mm. Station reported no rain on this day |
Where did it rain in the latest bulletin?
24h to 08:00, 2 Nov
18 Western Cape stations recorded rain in the latest bulletin; they are listed below by amount, with their distance from Cape Town.
- George Witfontein 15.0 mm about 370 km east of Cape Town
- Knysna - Platboskop 9.0 mm about 430 km east of Cape Town
- Knysna - Kruisfontein 6.0 mm about 430 km east of Cape Town
- Mosselbay-Robinson Pass 6.0 mm about 340 km east of Cape Town
- George Climate 5.0 mm about 370 km east of Cape Town
Rainfall map
The map shows the rainfall footprint of the 5 days from 29 Oct to 2 Nov, with each station coloured by its highest reading over that period and the stations that reported in the latest bulletin ringed. It opens on the Western Cape, and the rest of the country comes into view when the map is zoomed out.
More map layers
Each hexagon combines the readings of the stations inside it, so that the layer shows the regional pattern of rainfall. Each circle is a SAWS measurement taken at the reporting station itself. This surface is interpolated from the station readings, so any value shown between two gauges is an estimate. Each province is coloured by the readings of its listed stations, which does not imply that rain fell evenly across it. The latest bulletin can be set against the previous day’s to show how the footprint has moved.
Western Cape, day by day
11 May – 2 Nov 2026The chart traces the Western Cape stations alone, giving the heaviest reading of each day and the number of stations that reported rain.
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| Date | Max mm | Stations | Wet stations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | 13.0 | 11 | 11 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 Oct 2026 | 18.0 | 34 | 34 |
| 7 Oct 2026 | 5.0 | 19 | 19 |
| 8 Oct 2026 | No bulletin published | ||
| 9 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 Oct 2026 | 2.0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 Oct 2026 | 13.0 | 39 | 39 |
| 14 Oct 2026 | 3.0 | 2 | 2 |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 8.0 | 17 | 17 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 16.0 | 17 | 17 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 35.0 | 18 | 18 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 1.0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 51.0 | 19 | 19 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 18.0 | 40 | 40 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 5.0 | 15 | 15 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 Oct 2026 | 6.0 | 11 | 11 |
| 28 Oct 2026 | 7.0 | 2 | 2 |
| 29 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 Oct 2026 | No bulletin published | ||
| 31 Oct 2026 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 34.0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2 Nov 2026 | 15.0 | 18 | 18 |
Rain across the country
In the latest bulletin the wettest station in the country was Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal, with 33.0 mm.
Show the national picture
44 stations are plotted at their province centroid, because their exact coordinates are not known, and they are drawn as translucent dots.
The figures below summarise every station in this bulletin.
To show whether the rain was isolated or widespread, we count the stations in each province by intensity band.
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| Province | Light | Moderate | Heavy | Very heavy | Extreme | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KwaZulu-Natal | 26 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| Western Cape | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Eastern Cape | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Gauteng | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Mpumalanga | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| North West | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Free State | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Limpopo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Northern Cape | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
The stations with the highest 24-hour totals are ranked below, each bar scaled to the day’s highest reading.
The chart traces daily rainfall for all stations together, for a single province or for a single station.
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| Date | Max mm | Stations | Wet stations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | 38.0 | 63 | 63 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 22.0 | 26 | 26 |
| 6 Oct 2026 | 18.0 | 41 | 41 |
| 7 Oct 2026 | 19.0 | 68 | 68 |
| 8 Oct 2026 | No bulletin published | ||
| 9 Oct 2026 | 3.0 | 4 | 4 |
| 10 Oct 2026 | 2.0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 Oct 2026 | 12.0 | 32 | 32 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 30.0 | 25 | 25 |
| 13 Oct 2026 | 21.0 | 81 | 81 |
| 14 Oct 2026 | 24.0 | 33 | 33 |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 2.0 | 6 | 6 |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 8.0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 21.0 | 18 | 18 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 16.0 | 28 | 28 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 105.0 | 72 | 72 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 37.0 | 94 | 94 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 51.0 | 19 | 19 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 18.0 | 46 | 46 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 9.0 | 34 | 34 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 7.0 | 10 | 10 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 1.0 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 17.0 | 32 | 32 |
| 27 Oct 2026 | 98.0 | 79 | 79 |
| 28 Oct 2026 | 93.0 | 43 | 43 |
| 29 Oct 2026 | 1.0 | 1 | 1 |
| 30 Oct 2026 | No bulletin published | ||
| 31 Oct 2026 | 4.0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 34.0 | 35 | 35 |
| 2 Nov 2026 | 33.0 | 103 | 103 |
The stations are grouped by intensity band, which shows whether the bulletin was dominated by light rain or whether many stations recorded heavy falls.
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| Band | From | Stations |
|---|---|---|
| Light | ≥ 0 mm | 91 |
| Moderate | ≥ 10 mm | 11 |
| Heavy | ≥ 20 mm | 1 |
| Very heavy | ≥ 50 mm | 0 |
| Extreme | ≥ 100 mm | 0 |
Methodology & source
Reporting period
24-hour rainfall ending 08:00 SAST
Data source
Footprint aggregation
Footprint cells combine the station readings into hexagons about 10 km across (H3 resolution 5), whereas the station markers show the measurements themselves.
Historical tracking
Tracking since 11 May 2026
Long-term averages
1961-1990 station normals, NOAA GHCN-Daily
Data quality notes
- The station circles are the SAWS 24-hour measurements themselves and are therefore the most reliable layer, while the hexagonal footprint cells are derived from those same readings.
- Every station in today’s bulletin has coordinates; a station without them would be left off the map but still included in the counts and tables.
- The history begins on 11 May 2026, and earlier bulletins are not available on this page.
- “Usual” compares the month so far against the 1961-1990 average for the same gauge, taken from NOAA GHCN-Daily and pro-rated across the days elapsed. SAWS lists only stations that recorded rain, so a station missing from a published bulletin is counted as a dry day; days with no bulletin at all are excluded and make the total a lower bound.
The full dataset
We provide the whole rainfall archive as an Excel workbook, on request.
The workbook has one row per station per day, giving the rainfall in millimetres together with the province, the coordinates and the bulletin from which each reading was taken.
Column dictionary
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
date | Reading date (SAST); the 24-hour period ending 08:00 SAST that day |
station | SAWS station name as published in the bulletin |
province | Province the station reports under |
latitude, longitude | Station coordinates (WGS84), blank when unknown |
location_approximate | true when the coordinates are approximate (geocoded from the station name) |
rainfall_mm | Rainfall over the 24-hour period, in millimetres |
source | Organisation that published the reading, including archive intermediaries |
source_url | The bulletin PDF the reading was taken from |
Daily rainfall bulletin published by the South African Weather Service.
Last fetched: 2 November 2026, 13:02 UTC