Climate and average weather in Praktiseer

In Praktiseer, the summers are hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: early April to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Praktiseer typically varies from 8°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 4°C or above 34°C. January is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Praktiseer for warm-weather activities is from early April to mid October.

Hottest
Jan
29°
Coldest
Jul
Wettest
Jan
83 mm
Driest
Jun
3 mm
Rain / yr
443 mm
67 wet days
Daylight
10.5–13.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
714 m
24.6°S
Clearest
Jun
17% cloud

Praktiseer 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 mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.0 months, from October 30 to March 29, with daily high temperatures above 28°C. The hottest month of the year in Praktiseer is January, with an average high of 29°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 2.2 months, from June 1 to August 6, with daily high temperatures below 23°C. The coldest month of the year in Praktiseer is July, with an average low of 8°C and high of 22°C.

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

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2919
Feb2919
Mar2818
Apr2615
May2512
Jun228
Jul228
Aug2411
Sep2714
Oct2716
Nov2817
Dec2919

Average hourly temperature in Praktiseer

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near C.

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

Praktiseer 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
Jan29° / 19°8310.413.45.3
Feb29° / 19°628.912.95.4
Mar28° / 18°517.712.26.4
Apr26° / 15°274.611.47.8
May25° / 12°101.810.89.0
Jun22° / 30.810.59.1
Jul22° / 40.710.69.0
Aug24° / 11°60.811.19.2
Sep27° / 14°112.311.88.4
Oct27° / 16°36612.67.3
Nov28° / 17°7110.813.26.2
Dec29° / 19°7912.313.55.5

Chance of rain

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

Praktiseer gets about 443 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 17 to Apr 7, peaking in December at about 41% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 27.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 83 mm over about 10 wet days; June is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 14 · 41%Jun 27 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3410
Feb329
Mar258
Apr155
May62
Jun31
Jul21
Aug31
Sep82
Oct196
Nov3511
Dec3912

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Praktiseer collects about 443 mm of rain across 67 wet days — roughly 37 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 83 mm, while June is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec836251271034611367179
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan8310
Feb629
Mar518
Apr275
May102
Jun31
Jul41
Aug61
Sep112
Oct366
Nov7111
Dec7912

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Praktiseer, 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 11 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around October 2. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 3 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around April 10. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 49% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 15 · 92%Nov 28 · 46%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5644
Feb6238
Mar6832
Apr7624
May8911
Jun928
Jul919
Aug8812
Sep8218
Oct6535
Nov5248
Dec5149

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 30 min of light; the shortest, around June 6, only 10 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 3 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.45:276:49
Feb12.95:486:39
Mar12.26:036:14
Apr11.46:165:42
May10.86:315:19
Jun10.56:445:14
Jul10.66:465:23
Aug11.16:295:37
Sep11.85:575:49
Oct12.65:266:01
Nov13.25:086:20
Dec13.55:096:40

Sunny days

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

Praktiseer averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Apr 14 to Oct 8. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 9 sunny days — about 65% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2026 daysDec 28 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar15Mixed
Apr17Bright
May24Brilliant
Jun25Brilliant
Jul26Brilliant
Aug24Brilliant
Sep21Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov10Mixed
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 Praktiseer, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around November 7 to April 3. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 69% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 4 to November 6, 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 15 · 100%Jan 26 · 30%muggyhumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan5264919
Feb5304717
Mar1343368
Apr4939111
May92800
Jun100000
Jul100000
Aug99100
Sep901000
Oct583480
Nov2641303
Dec9334711

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 Praktiseer is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeOct 9 · 8 km/hMay 11 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug7calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Praktiseer

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Praktiseer is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Praktiseer for general outdoor tourist activities is from early April to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 14 · 9.3

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
Jan5.3fair
Feb5.4fair
Mar6.4good
Apr7.8ideal
May9.0ideal
Jun9.1ideal
Jul9.0ideal
Aug9.2ideal
Sep8.4ideal
Oct7.3good
Nov6.2good
Dec5.5fair

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 Praktiseer for hot-weather activities run from late July to mid November and again from late December to mid June, with a peak score in the second week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 13 · 8.3

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 Praktiseer, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 22°C), pack light clothes and a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Praktiseer sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Praktiseer 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 Praktiseer peaks around January 24 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 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 24UV 13Jun 21UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr8Very high
May6High
Jun5High
Jul5High
Aug7Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct10Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Praktiseer

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar86
Apr6.54
May5.51
Jun50
Jul50
Aug63
Sep74.5
Oct85.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec96.5

Air quality in Praktiseer 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 Praktiseer is worst in July — around 34 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.9× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1734 µg/m³Dec 219 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb11Good
Mar14Moderate
Apr20Moderate
May28Moderate
Jun31Moderate
Jul34Moderate
Aug32Moderate
Sep26Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov12Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Praktiseer 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
Jun1000
Jul1000
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. Praktiseer banks about 3,835 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan444
Feb402
Mar410
Apr327
May250
Jun158
Jul153
Aug227
Sep307
Oct358
Nov377
Dec422

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.

Praktiseer receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Aug 31 to Mar 19. The brightest month is December, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 37% less than the December peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 316.4 kWhJun 243.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.3Intense
Feb6.0Intense
Mar5.5Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May4.3Bright
Jun3.9Moderate
Jul4.1Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct6.1Intense
Nov6.1Intense
Dec6.3Intense

Where is Praktiseer?

Praktiseer sits at 24.6°S, 30.3°E, 714 m above sea level, in South Africa. The nearest listed city is Lydenburg, 58 km away.

Topography around Praktiseer

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Praktiseer has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 339 m around an average of 736 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,045 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,975 m.

The land around Praktiseer is covered by artificial surfaces (37%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, shrubs (52%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and shrubs (38%), grassland (33%) and trees (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
339 m
16 km
1,045 m
80 km
1,975 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Lydenburg 58 km · Sabie 74 km · Nkowakowa 77 km · Acornhoek 79 km · Mafemani 80 km · Dwarsloop 83 km · Tzaneen 85 km · Lebowakgomo 88 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 Praktiseer (-24.584°, 30.3168°, elevation 714 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).