South Africa · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Cape Town.

November leads for comfortable weather in Cape Town: typically 24.6°C by day, 13°C at night, with 35 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortNovember

Typical high24.6°C

Typical low13°C

Rain in November35 mm

Comfort

November

November · December · March

93climate match

Beach

January

February · January · December

84climate match

Outdoors

October

October · September · May

86climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 46 against November’s 93 — days reach only 18.5°C, 5° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 6.8°C.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

8527.9° / 16.4°

Feb

8428.2° / 16.2°

Mar

9026.9° / 14.7°

Apr

8824.5° / 11.6°

May

7021.4° / 9.6°

Jun

5118.9° / 7.3°

Jul

4618.5° / 6.8°

Aug

5318.9° / 7.3°

Sep

6820.4° / 8.9°

Oct

8823.1° / 10.9°

Nov

9324.6° / 13°

Dec

9126.7° / 15.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Cape Town — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	27.9°C	16.4°C	8 mm	2.1	14 h 11	85	Limited coverage
February	28.2°C	16.2°C	18 mm	2.3	13 h 22	84	Limited coverage
March	26.9°C	14.7°C	18 mm	3	12 h 24	90	Limited coverage
April	24.5°C	11.6°C	52 mm	5.5	11 h 17	88	Limited coverage
May	21.4°C	9.6°C	75 mm	9.5	10 h 23	70	Good coverage
June	18.9°C	7.3°C	106 mm	12.8	9 h 54	51	Good coverage
July	18.5°C	6.8°C	122 mm	12.8	10 h 06	46	Good coverage
August	18.9°C	7.3°C	92 mm	12.6	10 h 52	53	Good coverage
September	20.4°C	8.9°C	58 mm	9.7	11 h 56	68	Good coverage
October	23.1°C	10.9°C	37 mm	4.9	13 h	88	Limited coverage
November	24.6°C	13°C	35 mm	4.6	13 h 56	93	Good coverage
December	26.7°C	15.3°C	28 mm	2.9	14 h 24	91	Limited coverage

Records at CAPE TOWN INTL, 1976–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	41.3°C19 Jan 2000	4.7°C23 Jan 1998	99 mm5 Jan 2023	101 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2021	43
February	37.4°C18 Feb 2000	6.2°C19 Feb 1982	30 mm13 Feb 1988	49 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1981	41
March	42.4°C3 Mar 2015	1.0°C24 Mar 2014	150 mm26 Mar 2014	168 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 1999	44
April	37.4°C13 Apr 2012	0.0°C28 Apr 1993	94 mm12 Apr 1993	182 mm1993 · driest 1 mm in 1994	44
May	33.7°C17 May 2022	0.0°C9 May 2001	54 mm20 May 2007	140 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 2024	43
June	30.9°C8 Jun 2022	-0.4°C17 Jun 1988	99 mm19 Jun 2025	200 mm2025 · driest 4 mm in 2003	43
July	30.3°C31 Jul 2017	-4.6°C21 Jul 2000	61 mm6 Jul 1985	195 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 1984	43
August	31.5°C29 Aug 2023	-0.2°C5 Aug 2003	48 mm6 Aug 2004	164 mm2013 · driest 1 mm in 1984	44
September	37.1°C13 Sep 2005	0.6°C10 Sep 1998	99 mm29 Sep 2020	113 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 1976	45
October	37.2°C10 Oct 1985	0.0°C14 Oct 1998	53 mm5 Oct 1984	86 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 1999	45
November	38.7°C15 Nov 2000	3.4°C8 Nov 1996	99 mm12 Nov 2023	100 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2019	46
December	39.1°C30 Dec 2015	6.2°C9 Dec 2011	99 mm11 Dec 2020	101 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2005	45

Typical days per month at CAPE TOWN INTL, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	24	7	<1
February	23	8	<1
March	19	5	<1
April	11	3	1
May	5	1	2
June	2	<1	3
July	2	0	2
August	2	<1	2
September	4	<1	<1
October	8	2	<1
November	11	3	<1
December	19	5	<1

How often, not how much — every day in CAPE TOWN INTL’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	87%	13%	2%	5%	26.3–28.9°C
February	84%	14%	3%	4%	26.3–29.6°C
March	84%	16%	3%	7%	25.5–28.1°C
April	64%	27%	6%	32%	23.1–25.8°C
May	40%	34%	10%	42%	20.3–23.0°C
June	19%	42%	12%	52%	17.7–20.6°C
July	18%	39%	12%	56%	16.9–19.8°C
August	19%	38%	9%	45%	17.9–20.8°C
September	34%	31%	4%	36%	18.7–22.3°C
October	59%	22%	4%	15%	21.3–24.3°C
November	77%	19%	4%	12%	23.3–26.2°C
December	84%	16%	2%	7%	25.0–28.0°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1982Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 34-year average. Warmest: 1999. Coolest: 1996.2021

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 3369157
NOAA station: SFM00068816 · CAPE TOWN INTL
Station distance: 17.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 11 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -33.93°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

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