The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Richards Bay has
recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far
they sit beyond a normal day.
Based on 13 years of daily weather observations (2012–present), from the Richards Bay Airport station 7 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Richards Bay
has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year
looks like.
🔥Hottest day
109°FDec 24, 2015
The three most extreme on record
1109°FDec 24, 2015
2109°FDec 25, 2014
3108°FMay 30, 2017
❄️Coldest night
40°FJul 9, 2024
The three most extreme on record
140°FJul 9, 2024recent
242°FJun 14, 2020
342°FJul 17, 2020
🌧️Most rain in one day
6.46 inFeb 12, 2023
The three most extreme on record
16.46 inFeb 12, 2023recent
24.69 inOct 17, 2014
34.37 inFeb 22, 2017
In plain terms
Across the record, Richards Bay has reached as high as 109°F and as low as 40°F. A single day has delivered over 6 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 28 years of daily observations at Durban Intl, a weather station, about 169 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.