South Africa’s weather today brings warm and dry conditions across much of the country, with clear skies and increasing inland winds. Coastal areas remain partly cloudy with cooler breezes.
A significant Yellow Level 2 warning for damaging interior winds is in effect, and extremely high fire danger persists across several regions.
Weather warnings and advisories for Tuesday, 2 September 2025
- Yellow Level 2 Warning – Damaging Interior Winds:
- Strong, potentially harmful winds expected over:
- Eastern parts of the Northern Cape
- Central and western Free State
- Central and western North West Province
- Risks include damage to informal settlements and a higher chance of runaway fires.
- Strong, potentially harmful winds expected over:
- Fire Danger Warnings:
- Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected over central parts of the country (specifically in regions overlapping with the interior wind warning areas).
- Advisories:
- None issued.
Cape Town, Durban and JHB forecast: Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Cape Town weather
| Temperature (°C) | Condition | Precipitation (%) | Wind Speed (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 / 13 | Partly Cloudy | 10 | 16 |
Durban weather
| Temperature (°C) | Condition | Precipitation (%) | Wind Speed (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 / 16 | Partly Cloudy | 5 | 19 |
Johannesburg weather
| Temperature (°C) | Condition | Precipitation (%) | Wind Speed (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 / 11 | Sunny | 10 | 13 |
What’s the weather in South Africa today? – Here’s a provincial forecast
- Gauteng
- Pretoria: Fine. 12/30 °C
- Johannesburg: Fine. 11/30 °C
- Vereeniging: Fine. 10/30 °C
- Mpumalanga
- Mbombela: Cloudy morning with fog patches, otherwise fine. 12/31 °C
- Limpopo
- Polokwane: Cloudy morning with fog patches, otherwise fine. 08/29 °C
- North West
- Mahikeng: Fine and windy. 12/32 °C
- Vryburg: Fine and windy. 10/32 °C
- Free State
- Bloemfontein: Fine and windy. 10/31 °C
- Northern Cape
- Kimberley: Fine and windy. 12/33 °C
- Upington: Fine and windy. 11/36 °C
- Western Cape
- Cape Town: Partly cloudy. 13/21 °C
- Garden Route (George)
- Partly cloudy. 10/26 °C
- Eastern Cape
- Gqeberha: Partly cloudy; shift from NE to southerly winds in afternoon, strong in evening. 13/27 °C
- East London: Partly cloudy; winds turn southerly later. 16/25 °C
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Durban: Partly cloudy. 16/24 °C
- Richards Bay: Partly cloudy. 17/27 °C
- Pietermaritzburg: Morning fog patches; otherwise fine. 11/28 °C
