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Weather extremes
How extreme does Cape Town's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Cape Town has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Cape Town has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 27°F hotter than a normal March afternoon in Cape Town (typical high near 81°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 20°F colder than a normal July night in Cape Town (typical low near 44°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Cape Town usually gets in the whole month of April (typical April total about 2.3 in).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Cape Town's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — March's 108°F is about 27°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Cape Town Intl, a weather station, about 17 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.