South Africa · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Ilitha.

February leads for comfortable weather in Ilitha: typically 22°C by day, 14.5°C at night, with 137 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high22°C

Typical low14.5°C

Rain in February137 mm

Comfort

February

February · January · December

69climate match

Beach

February

February · January · December

32climate match

Outdoors

February

February · May · December

56climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 30 against February’s 69 — days reach only 15.9°C, 8° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and 174 mm of rain falls.

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

6221.7° / 14.2°

Feb

6922° / 14.5°

Mar

5221° / 13.7°

Apr

4419.5° / 12.4°

May

3917.9° / 10.3°

Jun

3316.8° / 8.9°

Jul

3015.9° / 8.1°

Aug

3015.6° / 8.1°

Sep

3016° / 8.8°

Oct

3217° / 10°

Nov

4218.7° / 11.6°

Dec

5320.5° / 13.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Ilitha — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 41 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	21.7°C	14.2°C	174 mm	14	24.3°C	14 h 06	62	Strong coverage
February	22°C	14.5°C	137 mm	13.4	24.8°C	13 h 19	69	Strong coverage
March	21°C	13.7°C	217 mm	14.7	24.7°C	12 h 23	52	Strong coverage
April	19.5°C	12.4°C	222 mm	14.7	24.2°C	11 h 19	44	Strong coverage
May	17.9°C	10.3°C	185 mm	15.1	23.2°C	10 h 27	39	Strong coverage
June	16.8°C	8.9°C	187 mm	14.5	21.7°C	10 h	33	Strong coverage
July	15.9°C	8.1°C	174 mm	15.3	21.0°C	10 h 10	30	Strong coverage
August	15.6°C	8.1°C	168 mm	16	20.4°C	10 h 55	30	Strong coverage
September	16°C	8.8°C	187 mm	15.1	20.5°C	11 h 56	30	Strong coverage
October	17°C	10°C	211 mm	15.7	20.9°C	12 h 58	32	Strong coverage
November	18.7°C	11.6°C	204 mm	14.7	22.2°C	13 h 52	42	Strong coverage
December	20.5°C	13.2°C	189 mm	14.8	23.1°C	14 h 19	53	Strong coverage

What has changed

Ilitha runs -7.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

-6.1

Feb

-6.0

Mar

-6.5

Apr

-6.8

May

-7.5

Jun

-7.1

Jul

-7.9

Aug

-8.4

Sep

-7.9

Oct

-6.9

Nov

-6.4

Dec

-5.9

February daytime highs, 2011–2024. Last recorded: 19.7°C.

Records at EAST LONDON, 1941–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	36.4°C3 Jan 1985	0.0°C19 Jan 2004	126 mm2 Jan 2016	364 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1999	81
February	42.6°C17 Feb 1955	0.0°C28 Feb 2008	199 mm16 Feb 2010	360 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1999	78
March	41.2°C11 Mar 1996	0.0°C2 Mar 2008	217 mm7 Mar 1963	584 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 1999	76
April	38.6°C19 Apr 1991	1.8°C2 Apr 2002	147 mm20 Apr 2025	512 mm2004 · driest 7 mm in 1991	80
May	37.0°C16 May 1980	0.0°C28 May 2007	130 mm20 May 2022	436 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1992	76
June	33.0°C7 Jun 1996	-1.1°C19 Jun 2017	132 mm5 Jun 2016	419 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 1999	76
July	34.3°C22 Jul 1999	-1.6°C4 Jul 2016	155 mm24 Jul 1983	457 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1955	78
August	37.5°C31 Aug 1964	0.0°C20 Aug 2007	155 mm25 Aug 1970	491 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1995	81
September	41.7°C30 Sep 1983	0.0°C6 Sep 2020	121 mm18 Sep 2004	464 mm2006 · driest 6 mm in 1994	78
October	43.1°C4 Oct 1997	-0.5°C17 Oct 2003	179 mm2 Oct 1989	404 mm2023 · driest 7 mm in 1975	76
November	39.7°C13 Nov 1998	0.0°C28 Nov 2003	184 mm2 Nov 1985	505 mm2005 · driest 11 mm in 1994	78
December	38.2°C23 Dec 1968	1.3°C26 Dec 2023	99 mm2 Dec 2009	402 mm2003 · driest 6 mm in 1997	80

Typical days per month at EAST LONDON, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	8	<1	4
February	8	<1	4
March	6	<1	5
April	3	<1	5
May	3	<1	5
June	2	<1	5
July	2	<1	5
August	2	<1	5
September	2	<1	5
October	2	<1	5
November	3	<1	5
December	5	<1	4

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 92); on 2011–2025 it is February (67). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in EAST LONDON’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	54%	39%	10%	48%	19.3–26.2°C
February	53%	40%	12%	54%	19.4–26.5°C
March	50%	40%	14%	49%	18.3–25.7°C
April	53%	36%	13%	38%	16.7–24.7°C
May	50%	32%	11%	31%	14.7–23.7°C
June	41%	29%	10%	30%	13.3–22.4°C
July	36%	28%	9%	30%	12.7–22.1°C
August	36%	32%	10%	36%	12.3–22.3°C
September	37%	37%	11%	43%	12.5–22.2°C
October	38%	41%	15%	55%	14.2–22.4°C
November	46%	41%	14%	52%	16.2–23.7°C
December	53%	38%	11%	45%	18.0–25.3°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.

1941Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 69-year average. Warmest: 1999. Coolest: 2002.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 12718752
NOAA station: SF000068858 · EAST LONDON
Station distance: 32.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -32.89°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 41 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from EAST LONDON is what differs

East London→Mdantsane→Bhisho→Qonce→Gonubie→Ndevana→

Or put two places side by side: Ilitha vs East London

Best time to visitIlitha.

February

February

February

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Ilitha runs -7.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Ilitha.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Ilitha runs -7.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.