Climate and average weather in Pampierstad

In Pampierstad, the summers are hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are mild and clear.

Best: early April to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Pampierstad typically varies from 3°C to 32°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 37°C. December is the hottest month of the year, while June is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Pampierstad for warm-weather activities is from early April to late September.

Hottest
Dec
32°
Coldest
Jun
Wettest
Jan
83 mm
Driest
Jul
4 mm
Rain / yr
435 mm
74 wet days
Daylight
10.2–13.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,078 m
27.8°S
Clearest
Jul
13% cloud

Pampierstad is town.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Pampierstad 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 early April to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.3 months, from October 10 to March 18, with daily high temperatures above 29°C. The hottest month of the year in Pampierstad is December, with an average high of 32°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 2.6 months, from May 25 to August 11, with daily high temperatures below 22°C. The coldest month of the year in Pampierstad is June, with an average low of 3°C and high of 20°C.

Days typically run about 15°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 17°C) in August.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3219
Feb3118
Mar2916
Apr2612
May237
Jun203
Jul203
Aug235
Sep2710
Oct3013
Nov3116
Dec3218

How hot and cold Pampierstad really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Pampierstad feels like about 32°C (around December 18). About 32 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in December.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -0°C (around July 9), with roughly 28 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32321919
Feb31311818
Mar29291616
Apr26261212
May232357
Jun202003
Jul202003
Aug232335
Sep2727910
Oct29301313
Nov31311616
Dec32321818

Average hourly temperature in Pampierstad

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 December afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in June, near C.

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

Pampierstad 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
Jan32° / 19°8312.813.64.0
Feb31° / 18°6811.5134.4
Mar29° / 16°5710.412.25.6
Apr26° / 12°385.711.47.8
May23° / 142.410.68.8
Jun20° / 91.410.38.4
Jul20° / 40.810.48.5
Aug23° / 91.2119.1
Sep27° / 10°112.111.88.3
Oct30° / 13°315.912.76.2
Nov31° / 16°478.113.45.0
Dec32° / 18°6511.713.74.0

Chance of rain

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

Pampierstad gets about 435 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 5.7 months, from around Oct 21 to Apr 13, peaking in February at about 44% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 9.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 83 mm over about 13 wet days; July is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 13 · 44%Jul 9 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4113
Feb4212
Mar3310
Apr206
May82
Jun41
Jul31
Aug41
Sep82
Oct196
Nov288
Dec3712

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Pampierstad collects about 435 mm of rain across 74 wet days — roughly 36 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 83 mm, while July is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec836857381494911314765
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan8313
Feb6812
Mar5710
Apr386
May142
Jun91
Jul41
Aug91
Sep112
Oct316
Nov478
Dec6512

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Pampierstad, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around April 24 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 2. 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 3 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around April 23. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 25% 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 14 · 94%Nov 16 · 74%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7822
Feb7822
Mar7921
Apr8119
May8713
Jun919
Jul937
Aug928
Sep8713
Oct8020
Nov7525
Dec7723

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 December 17, brings about 13 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around June 17, only 10 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.65:437:18
Feb13.06:067:05
Mar12.26:256:37
Apr11.46:416:02
May10.66:595:36
Jun10.37:145:29
Jul10.47:155:39
Aug11.06:555:55
Sep11.86:206:11
Oct12.75:466:27
Nov13.45:256:49
Dec13.75:257:10

Sunny days

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

Pampierstad averages about 21 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 15 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.5 months, from around Apr 22 to Oct 5. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 16 sunny days — about 39% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 1827 daysFeb 1215 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr20Bright
May24Brilliant
Jun25Brilliant
Jul27Brilliant
Aug26Brilliant
Sep22Bright
Oct20Bright
Nov17Bright
Dec16Bright

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 Pampierstad, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.6 months, from around December 12 to April 1. The muggiest month is February, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 38% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 2 to December 11, and May is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 2 · 100%Feb 13 · 59%humidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan4326256
Feb3131317
Mar4734181
Apr811730
May99100
Jun100000
Jul100000
Aug100000
Sep100000
Oct92710
Nov811440
Dec6324111

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.

Wind in Pampierstad is steady company: average speeds sit near 10 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeNov 14 · 12 km/hFeb 26 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul10calm
Aug11calm
Sep11calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Pampierstad

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid April, Pampierstad 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 Pampierstad for general outdoor tourist activities is from early April to late September, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 23 · 9.2

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
Jan4.0fair
Feb4.4fair
Mar5.7good
Apr7.8ideal
May8.8ideal
Jun8.4ideal
Jul8.6ideal
Aug9.0ideal
Sep8.3ideal
Oct6.2good
Nov5.0fair
Dec4.0fair

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 Pampierstad for hot-weather activities run from late February to mid May and again from mid August to early December, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 25 · 8.4

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 Pampierstad, 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 December (highs near 32°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around June (highs near 20°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In December, Pampierstad sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Pampierstad 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 Pampierstad peaks around January 14 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 20 at about 5 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighModerateHighVery highExtremeJan 14UV 14Jun 20UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr8Very high
May6High
Jun5Moderate
Jul5Moderate
Aug7High
Sep9Very high
Oct11Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Pampierstad

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
May5.50.5
Jun40
Jul4.50
Aug62.5
Sep74.5
Oct85.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec97

Air quality in Pampierstad 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 Pampierstad is worst in October — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 4.0× the cleanest month (December, 4 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateModerateGoodOct 916 µg/m³Dec 204 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan4Good
Feb6Good
Mar6Good
Apr7Good
May10Good
Jun14Moderate
Jul12Good
Aug13Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov5Good
Dec4Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Pampierstad is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about August 13 to May 31 (292 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freereliably frost-freeAug 1390%May 3190%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May970
Jun8230
Jul7931
Aug917
Sep990
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. Pampierstad banks about 3,357 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)
Jan470
Feb407
Mar392
Apr267
May154
Jun43
Jul39
Aug124
Sep250
Oct354
Nov395
Dec460

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.

Pampierstad receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Sep 7 to Mar 17. The brightest month is December, averaging about 7.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 51% less than the December peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 177.7 kWhJun 183.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan7.4Intense
Feb6.8Intense
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.0Bright
May4.2Bright
Jun3.8Moderate
Jul4.0Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep6.2Intense
Oct7.0Intense
Nov7.5Intense
Dec7.7Intense

Where is Pampierstad?

Pampierstad sits at 27.8°S, 24.7°E, 1,078 m above sea level, in South Africa. The nearest listed city is Warrenton, 40 km away.

Topography around Pampierstad

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Pampierstad has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 87 m around an average of 1,078 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 235 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 516 m.

The land around Pampierstad is covered by shrubs (49%) and grassland (36%) within 3 km, shrubs (51%) and grassland (28%) within 16 km, and grassland (59%) and shrubs (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
87 m
16 km
235 m
80 km
516 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Warrenton 40 km · Christiana 49 km · Schweizer-Reneke 92 km · Bloemhof 92 km · Vryburg 92 km · Kimberley 106 km · Hoopstad 120 km · Makwassie 139 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 Pampierstad (-27.7832°, 24.6877°, elevation 1,078 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).