The Northern Cape and Western Cape will experience extreme heat from Tuesday.
The South African Weather Service has issued heatwave advisories for the western parts of the Namakwa District and west and south-western parts of the Western Cape, with the scorching conditions set to expand to the Little Karoo, Central Karoo and Garden Route districts from Tuesday.
Advisories
- Heatwave conditions with persistently high temperatures are expected to continue over the western parts of the Namakwa District, the west and south-western parts of the Western Cape.
- The heatwave will spread to the Little Karoo, Central Karoo and Garden Route districts.
- The heatwave will extend into the Eastern Cape (excluding the extreme north and east) from Tuesday until Friday (10–13 March 2026).
The weather in your province
Gauteng: Partly cloudy and cool to warm conditions are expected throughout the day.
Pretoria: 12°C – 27°C
Johannesburg: 10°C – 24°C
Vereeniging: 10°C – 25°C
Mpumalanga: Fine conditions in the west, otherwise cloudy and warm weather with morning drizzle along the escarpment. Isolated showers and rain are expected along the Lowveld and northern escarpments from the afternoon.
Mbombela: 16°C – 24°C
Ermelo: 12°C – 24°C
Emalahleni: 13°C – 24°C
Standerton: 13°C – 27°C
Skukuza: 20°C – 30°C
Limpopo: Cloudy with morning drizzle along the escarpment, otherwise partly cloudy and warm conditions. Isolated showers and thundershowers possible in the east and central areas.
Polokwane: 16°C – 26°C
Phalaborwa: 19°C – 28°C
Tzaneen: 21°C – 28°C
Musina: 21°C – 29°C
Lephalale: 19°C – 30°C
Mokopane: 19°C – 31°C
North West: Fine and warm conditions, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon.
Klerksdorp: 12°C – 27°C
Potchefstroom: 12°C – 28°C
Mahikeng: 15°C – 28°C
Rustenburg: 16°C – 28°C
Vryburg: 15°C – 28°C
Free State: Cloudy with fog in the east initially, otherwise fine and warm weather becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon.
Bloemfontein: 12°C – 27°C
Welkom: 13°C – 28°C
Bethlehem: 11°C – 24°C
Northern Cape: Fine and warm to hot conditions, but very hot to extremely hot in places over the western parts. Becoming partly cloudy over the north-eastern parts from the afternoon, spreading to the southern parts in the evening. Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly, reaching strong at times from the afternoon.
Upington: 22°C – 33°C
Kimberley: 15°C – 29°C
De Aar: 15°C – 29°C
Alexander Bay: 24°C – 43°C
Springbok: 25°C – 35°C
Calvinia: 19°C – 36°C
Sutherland: 10°C – 32°C
Western Cape: Partly cloudy and warm with morning fog patches in the south, otherwise fine and very hot to extremely hot weather, but hot over the south-western parts. Coastal winds will be fresh to strong easterly to south-easterly, but moderate southerly along the west coast.
Cape Town: 23°C – 39°C
Vredendal: 20°C – 42°C
Riversdale: 17°C – 37°C
George: 15°C – 28°C
Worcester: 16°C – 40°C
Beaufort West: 16°C – 35°C
Oudtshoorn: 16°C – 38°C
Western half of the Eastern Cape: Western half: Cloudy with fog patches in places, otherwise sunny and warm but hot over the western interior. Coastal winds will be light north-easterly in the morning, otherwise moderate to fresh easterly.
Eastern half of the Eastern Cape: Cloudy with fog patches in the morning, otherwise fine and warm conditions. Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh north-easterly.
Gqeberha: 17°C – 27°C
Makhanda: 13°C – 30°C
Cradock: 10°C – 32°C
Graaff-Reinet: 10°C – 33°C
East London: 17°C – 25°C
Port St Johns: 16°C – 26°C
Mthatha: 10°C – 27°C
Komani: 10°C – 28°C
Qonce: 13°C – 29°C
KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated showers and rain in the north-east. Coastal winds will be moderate to fresh easterly to south-easterly north of Durban, but moderate easterly to north-easterly in the south.
Durban: 18°C – 26°C
Richards Bay: 19°C – 27°C
Pietermaritzburg: 11°C – 24°C
Ladysmith: 9°C – 26°C
*This weather report was written with the support of Toqan AI.
