South Africa · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Gqeberha.

April leads for comfortable weather in Gqeberha: typically 24.2°C by day, 13°C at night, with 57 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high24.2°C

Typical low13°C

Rain in April57 mm

Comfort

April

April · December · November

89climate match

Beach

February

February · January · December

76climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · June

80climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 60 against April’s 89 — nights drop to 8.4°C, and 118 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

8126.4° / 16.9°

Feb

8226.7° / 17.2°

Mar

8025.6° / 15.8°

Apr

8924.2° / 13°

May

7823.1° / 10.5°

Jun

6821.6° / 7.6°

Jul

6621.3° / 7.1°

Aug

6021° / 8.4°

Sep

6921.2° / 10.1°

Oct

7522° / 12.2°

Nov

8323.4° / 13.6°

Dec

8725° / 15.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Gqeberha — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 10 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	26.4°C	16.9°C	53 mm	8.6	20.7°C	14 h 11	81	Good coverage
February	26.7°C	17.2°C	44 mm	7.5	20.7°C	13 h 22	82	Good coverage
March	25.6°C	15.8°C	90 mm	9.3	20.3°C	12 h 24	80	Good coverage
April	24.2°C	13°C	57 mm	7.4	19.6°C	11 h 17	89	Good coverage
May	23.1°C	10.5°C	81 mm	7.3	18.8°C	10 h 23	78	Good coverage
June	21.6°C	7.6°C	82 mm	7.7	18.0°C	9 h 54	68	Good coverage
July	21.3°C	7.1°C	80 mm	8.5	17.4°C	10 h 06	66	Good coverage
August	21°C	8.4°C	118 mm	10.9	17.1°C	10 h 52	60	Good coverage
September	21.2°C	10.1°C	85 mm	9.5	17.4°C	11 h 56	69	Good coverage
October	22°C	12.2°C	88 mm	9.9	17.7°C	13 h	75	Good coverage
November	23.4°C	13.6°C	85 mm	8.7	18.6°C	13 h 57	83	Good coverage
December	25°C	15.6°C	64 mm	8.2	19.7°C	14 h 24	87	Good coverage

Records at PORT ELIZABETH INTL, 1976–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	37.3°C22 Jan 1996	6.2°C13 Jan 2005	68 mm15 Jan 1985	109 mm2000 · driest 5 mm in 1983	47
February	37.6°C20 Feb 1993	8.1°C19 Feb 1995	56 mm4 Feb 2012	108 mm2000 · driest 3 mm in 1998	44
March	39.6°C7 Mar 1991	5.9°C24 Mar 2003	106 mm2 Mar 1998	200 mm2003 · driest 9 mm in 1993	46
April	39.3°C20 Apr 1991	2.9°C16 Apr 1997	64 mm14 Apr 2003	136 mm2014 · driest 3 mm in 1994	47
May	36.9°C6 May 2007	0.0°C11 May 2004	72 mm23 May 2006	228 mm2023 · driest 1 mm in 2001	47
June	32.4°C2 Jun 1990	0.0°C27 Jun 1992	74 mm26 Jun 2009	159 mm2012 · driest 1 mm in 1996	47
July	36.0°C14 Jul 1998	-0.3°C24 Jul 1995	56 mm15 Jul 2012	187 mm2012 · driest 1 mm in 2005	47
August	35.0°C30 Aug 2023	0.0°C1 Aug 1996	130 mm3 Aug 2006	249 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2025	46
September	36.7°C8 Sep 2019	0.0°C17 Sep 1996	150 mm8 Sep 2002	196 mm2002 · driest 5 mm in 1994	46
October	36.1°C27 Oct 2005	1.0°C26 Oct 1990	91 mm22 Oct 2024	212 mm2012 · driest 4 mm in 2002	46
November	35.1°C1 Nov 2017	0.0°C18 Nov 1996	55 mm21 Nov 1996	238 mm1996 · driest 5 mm in 2022	47
December	36.0°C24 Dec 1993	7.7°C15 Dec 2017	71 mm23 Dec 2004	182 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 2000	47

Typical days per month at PORT ELIZABETH INTL, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	21	2	<1
February	20	2	1
March	16	1	1
April	8	3	2
May	6	3	1
June	6	<1	1
July	6	<1	2
August	5	1	2
September	3	<1	1
October	3	<1	1
November	6	<1	2
December	13	1	1

How often, not how much — every day in PORT ELIZABETH 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	75%	25%	4%	20%	25.5–27.2°C
February	74%	26%	5%	25%	25.8–27.5°C
March	70%	29%	6%	29%	24.7–27.0°C
April	68%	28%	7%	25%	22.4–25.7°C
May	66%	26%	8%	20%	21.9–24.9°C
June	46%	27%	8%	27%	20.1–23.1°C
July	40%	26%	9%	15%	19.8–22.9°C
August	39%	31%	10%	38%	19.9–22.8°C
September	48%	31%	7%	35%	20.2–22.2°C
October	60%	30%	7%	37%	20.9–23.2°C
November	68%	30%	8%	39%	22.1–24.6°C
December	75%	26%	5%	27%	24.0–26.1°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 31-year average. Warmest: 1985. Coolest: 2005.2016

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 964420
NOAA station: SFM00068842 · PORT ELIZABETH INTL
Station distance: 2.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -33.96°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 10 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 PORT ELIZABETH INTL is what differs

Kariega→Addo→Khaya Mnandi→Clarendon Marine→Colchester→Crossways Farm Village→

Or put two places side by side: Gqeberha vs Kariega

Best time to visitGqeberha.