Climate and average weather in Ivory Park

In Ivory Park, the summers are warm, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are mild and clear.

Best: late March to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ivory Park typically varies from 5°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 1°C or above 31°C. January is the hottest month of the year, while June is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ivory Park for warm-weather activities is from late March to mid October.

Hottest
Jan
26°
Coldest
Jun
Wettest
Dec
116 mm
Driest
Jul
3 mm
Rain / yr
644 mm
93 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,544 m
26.0°S
Clearest
Jul
13% cloud

Ivory Park weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late March to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Ivory Park, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 6.5 months, from September 8 to March 25, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Ivory Park is January, with an average high of 26°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 2.0 months, from May 31 to July 31, with daily high temperatures below 20°C. The coldest month of the year in Ivory Park is June, with an average low of 5°C and high of 19°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2616
Feb2616
Mar2515
Apr2312
May218
Jun195
Jul195
Aug217
Sep2511
Oct2613
Nov2615
Dec2616

Average hourly temperature in Ivory Park

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on January afternoons, near 26°C, and coldest before dawn in June, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Ivory Park weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan26° / 16°11015.313.45.9
Feb26° / 16°9712.612.96.2
Mar25° / 15°8010.812.26.9
Apr23° / 12°376.411.47.7
May21° / 142.610.78.3
Jun19° / 71.210.48.2
Jul19° / 30.610.58.3
Aug21° / 81.611.18.7
Sep25° / 11°19311.88.6
Oct26° / 13°659.612.67.1
Nov26° / 15°8813.313.36.3
Dec26° / 16°11616.413.65.8

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Ivory Park gets about 644 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.9 months, from around Oct 8 to Apr 6, peaking in December at about 53% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 11.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 116 mm over about 16 wet days; July is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 9 · 53%Jul 11 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4915
Feb4513
Mar3511
Apr226
May93
Jun41
Jul21
Aug52
Sep113
Oct3010
Nov4413
Dec5216

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ivory Park collects about 644 mm of rain across 93 wet days — roughly 54 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 116 mm, while July is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec11097803714738196588116
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan11015
Feb9713
Mar8011
Apr376
May143
Jun71
Jul31
Aug82
Sep193
Oct6510
Nov8813
Dec11616

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Ivory Park, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around April 16 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around October 9. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 93% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 10 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around April 15. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 46% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 19 · 94%Dec 3 · 53%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb6436
Mar6832
Apr7426
May8614
Jun919
Jul937
Aug9010
Sep8515
Oct7228
Nov5941
Dec5446

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around January 1, brings about 13 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around June 6, only 10 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.45:337:00
Feb12.95:556:49
Mar12.26:116:23
Apr11.46:265:49
May10.76:425:25
Jun10.46:565:19
Jul10.56:575:28
Aug11.16:395:44
Sep11.86:065:57
Oct12.65:346:11
Nov13.35:146:31
Dec13.65:156:52

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Ivory Park averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.6 months, from around Apr 20 to Oct 5. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 9 sunny days — about 67% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2227 daysDec 108 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr17Bright
May23Bright
Jun25Brilliant
Jul27Brilliant
Aug26Brilliant
Sep22Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov11Mixed
Dec9Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Ivory Park, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around November 29 to March 23. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 33% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around March 24 to November 28, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 24 · 100%Jan 23 · 65%humidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan204833
Feb254727
Mar494012
Apr87111
May10000
Jun10000
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep10000
Oct9190
Nov62344
Dec315217

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Ivory Park is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Jul 26 to Dec 19. The windiest month is September, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Dec 20 to Jul 25, with March the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezeSep 25 · 13 km/hMar 26 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul11calm
Aug12calm
Sep12light breeze
Oct12light breeze
Nov12calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Ivory Park

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Ivory Park's rainy season runs October–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Ivory Park

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Ivory Park throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early April, Ivory Park is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Ivory Park for general outdoor tourist activities is from late March to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 2 · 9.0

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan5.9good
Feb6.2good
Mar6.9good
Apr7.7ideal
May8.3ideal
Jun8.2ideal
Jul8.3ideal
Aug8.7ideal
Sep8.6ideal
Oct7.1good
Nov6.3good
Dec5.8good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Ivory Park for hot-weather activities run from late February to early April and again from late August to mid November, with a peak score in the third week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 15 · 7.7

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Ivory Park, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around January (highs near 26°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around June (highs near 19°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Ivory Park sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 16°C. Pack rain gear and sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ivory Park by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Ivory Park peaks around January 1 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 18 at about 5 (high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeJan 1UV 14Jun 18UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr9Very high
May6High
Jun5Moderate
Jul6High
Aug7Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct11Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Ivory Park

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in January the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan97
Feb8.56.5
Mar86
Apr6.54
May5.51
Jun4.50
Jul50
Aug63
Sep74.5
Oct85.5
Nov8.56
Dec97

Air quality in Ivory Park by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Ivory Park is worst in June — around 259 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 6.0× the cleanest month (January, 43 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120150180210240270JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyVery unhealthyUnhealthyPoorJun 23259 µg/m³Jan 1344 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan43Poor
Feb63Unhealthy
Mar101Unhealthy
Apr158Very unhealthy
May232Very unhealthy
Jun259Very unhealthy
Jul259Very unhealthy
Aug200Very unhealthy
Sep144Unhealthy
Oct91Unhealthy
Nov65Unhealthy
Dec50Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ivory Park is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun990
Jul970
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Ivory Park banks about 2,752 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around January.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan352
Feb314
Mar306
Apr219
May139
Jun54
Jul49
Aug135
Sep241
Oct299
Nov306
Dec339

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Ivory Park receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Aug 31 to Mar 14. The brightest month is December, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 41% less than the December peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 246.8 kWhJun 203.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.6Intense
Feb6.2Intense
Mar5.5Bright
Apr4.8Bright
May4.3Bright
Jun3.9Moderate
Jul4.2Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep6.0Intense
Oct6.6Intense
Nov6.7Intense
Dec6.7Intense

Where is Ivory Park?

Ivory Park sits at 26.0°S, 28.2°E, 1,544 m above sea level, in South Africa. The nearest listed city is Thembisa, 3.0 km away.

Topography around Ivory Park

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Ivory Park.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ivory Park has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 127 m around an average of 1,559 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 336 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 895 m.

The land around Ivory Park is covered by artificial surfaces (80%) within 3 km, grassland (39%) and artificial surfaces (35%) within 16 km, and grassland (53%) and cropland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
127 m
16 km
336 m
80 km
895 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Thembisa 3.0 km · Midrand 8.0 km · Midstream 9.0 km · Centurion 15 km · Alexandra 16 km · Edenvale 17 km · Diepsloot 20 km · Randburg 22 km

South Africa travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / M / N
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 41% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$6,598
2025
Happiness
5.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
68%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
43.7
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
22.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 602
Religion
Christian 86%or other traditional African religions 5%nothing in particular 5%Muslim 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Ivory Park (-25.9957°, 28.1971°, elevation 1,544 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).