What’s the weather in South Africa? – Here’s the forecast for Wednesday, 24 September 2025

South Africa’s weather today is dominated by severe rainfall and thunderstorms across parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, and the Free State.

The South African Weather Service has issued multiple weather alerts, with disruptive rain and damaging thunderstorms expected.

Fire danger conditions persist in parts of the Northern Cape and North West.

Weather warnings and advisories for Wednesday, 24 September 2025

• Impact-Based Warnings:
  • Yellow Level 4: Disruptive rainfall with heavy downpours causing flooding of roads and settlements, and damage to infrastructure in northern KwaZulu-Natal and southern Mpumalanga.
  • Yellow Level 2: Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, hail, and heavy downpours expected over:
    • Mpumalanga
    • South-eastern Gauteng
    • Eastern Free State
    • Midlands and south-western KwaZulu-Natal
• Fire Danger Warnings:
  • Extremely high fire danger conditions expected over:
    • Kagisano-Molopo Municipality (North West)
    • Gamagara Municipality (Northern Cape)
• Advisories:
  • Very cold conditions expected over the eastern interior of the Eastern Cape.

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

• Gauteng
  • Pretoria: Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers from afternoon. 14/29°C
  • Johannesburg: Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers from afternoon. 13/28°C
  • Vereeniging: Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers from afternoon. 13/27°C
• Mpumalanga
  • Mbombela: Cloudy with widespread showers and thundershowers. 16/26°C
• Limpopo
  • Polokwane: Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thundershowers. 11/29°C
• North West
  • Mahikeng: Partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers. 17/28°C
  • Vryburg: Partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers. 12/28°C
• Free State
  • Bloemfontein: Partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers. 10/25°C
• Northern Cape
  • Kimberley: Partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers. 9/25°C
  • Upington: Fine. 9/27°C
• Western Cape
  • Cape Town: Partly cloudy, becoming fine in the afternoon. 11/18°C
  • George: Cloudy with rain until afternoon, clearing by evening. 11/16°C
• Eastern Cape
  • Gqeberha: Partly cloudy with isolated showers. 13/17°C
  • East London: Mostly cloudy and cold with isolated to scattered thundershowers. 13/17°C
• KwaZulu-Natal
  • Durban: Cloudy with widespread showers and thundershowers. 14/20°C
  • Richards Bay: Cloudy with widespread showers and thundershowers. 16/22°C
  • Pietermaritzburg: Cloudy with widespread showers and thundershowers. 12/17°C