What’s the weather in South Africa? – Here’s the forecast for Thursday, 4 December 2025

South Africa’s weather today brings isolated thunderstorms across several provinces, extremely high fire danger in parts of the Northern and Western Cape, and very hot to extremely hot conditions in multiple western districts, according to the South African Weather Service (SAWS).

Weather warnings and advisories for Thursday, 4 December 2025

• Yellow Level 1: Severe thunderstorms with hail, damaging winds, heavy downpours and excessive lightning expected over:
  • Extreme north-eastern Northern Cape
  • Western North West
• Fire danger: Extremely high fire danger expected over:
  • Dawid Kruiper, Kai !Garib, Karoo Hoogland, Kamiesberg (Northern Cape)
  • Most of the West Coast District (Western Cape)
• Advisories:
  • Very hot to extremely hot and uncomfortable conditions expected over:
    • Kamiesberg Local Municipality (Northern Cape)
    • West Coast, Cape Winelands, Central Karoo, Garden Route
    • Drakenstein Local Municipality (Western Cape)

What’s the weather in South Africa today? – Here’s a provincial forecast

• Gauteng:
  • Pretoria: Partly cloudy with isolated afternoon thundershowers. 15/23
  • Johannesburg: Partly cloudy with isolated afternoon thundershowers. 15/21
  • Vereeniging: Partly cloudy with isolated afternoon thundershowers. 14/23
• Mpumalanga:
  • Mbombela: Partly cloudy with isolated afternoon showers and thundershowers. 17/24
• Limpopo:
  • Polokwane: Partly cloudy with isolated afternoon thundershowers. 14/22
• North West:
  • Mahikeng: Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. 16/27
  • Vryburg: Partly cloudy with scattered afternoon thundershowers. 16/29
• Free State:
  • Bloemfontein: Partly cloudy with isolated afternoon thundershowers. 13/28
• Northern Cape:
  • Kimberley: Fine, becoming partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. 15/33
  • Upington: Fine. 21/37
• Western Cape:
  • Cape Town: Fine; light morning winds becoming moderate to fresh SE. 21/34
  • George: Fine; light NE winds becoming moderate easterly. 12/28
• Eastern Cape:
  • Gqeberha: Fine; NE winds becoming moderate to fresh easterly, strong in afternoon. 12/24
  • East London: Cloudy early, otherwise fine; NE winds strengthening late morning. 13/24
• KwaZulu-Natal:
  • Durban: Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers; SE to NE winds. 18/23
  • Richards Bay: Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers; SE to NE winds. 18/24
  • Pietermaritzburg: Cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. 13/22