South Africa weather today will bring mostly fine and sunny conditions across the country. However, hazardous marine and winter weather conditions are forecast in parts of the Western and Northern Cape, with strong winds and disruptive waves along the west coast. Isolated showers are expected in some southern areas later in the day.
Weather warnings and advisories for Tuesday, 5 August 2025
- Impact-Based Warnings:
- Yellow Level 1 Warning: Damaging waves causing localised disruption to beachfront activities between Alexander Bay and Plettenberg Bay.
- Fire Danger Warnings:
- Extremely high fire danger conditions over:
- Western half of the North West
- North-eastern KwaZulu-Natal
- Nyandeni Local Municipality, Eastern Cape
- Extremely high fire danger conditions over:
- Advisories:
- Very cold, wet and windy conditions over the interior of Namakwa district (Northern Cape) and Witzenberg Municipality (Western Cape).
- Light snowfall expected over the northern high-lying areas of the Eastern Cape.
Cape Town, Durban and JHB forecast: Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Cape Town weather
| Temperature (°C) | Condition | Precipitation (%) | Wind Speed (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 / 11 | Partly Cloudy | 40 | 18 |
Durban weather
| Temperature (°C) | Condition | Precipitation (%) | Wind Speed (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 / 12 | Sunny | 0 | 13 |
Johannesburg weather
| Temperature (°C) | Condition | Precipitation (%) | Wind Speed (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 / 6 | Sunny | 0 | 16 |
What’s the weather in South Africa today? – Here’s a provincial forecast
- Gauteng
- Pretoria: Fine. 6/23 °C
- Johannesburg: Fine. 6/21 °C
- Vereeniging: Fine with morning frost. 2/22 °C
- Mpumalanga
- Mbombela: Fine. 9/25 °C
- Limpopo
- Polokwane: Fine. 5/23 °C
- North West
- Mahikeng: Fine and windy. 6/24 °C
- Vryburg: Fine and windy, becoming partly cloudy. 5/24 °C
- Free State
- Bloemfontein: Fine and windy, becoming partly cloudy. 6/22 °C
- Northern Cape
- Kimberley: Fine and windy, becoming partly cloudy. 7/23 °C
- Upington: Fine and windy, becoming partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. 9/18 °C
- Western Cape
- Cape Town: Cloudy with widespread morning rain and showers. 11/15 °C
- George (Southern Cape): Cloudy with scattered morning rain and showers. 10/15 °C
- Eastern Cape
- Gqeberha: Cloudy with afternoon and evening rain and showers. 15/19 °C
- East London: Fine becoming cloudy with light rain in the evening. 18/24 °C
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Durban: Fine. 12/27 °C
- Richards Bay: Fine. 14/29 °C
- Pietermaritzburg: Fine. 7/27 °C