Climate and average weather in Thulamahashi

In Thulamahashi, the weather is humid, hot, showery, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: mid April to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Thulamahashi typically varies from 11°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 8°C or above 35°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 Thulamahashi for warm-weather activities is from mid April to late September.

Hottest
Jan
29°
Coldest
Jul
11°
Wettest
Jan
132 mm
Driest
Jun
7 mm
Rain / yr
694 mm
92 wet days
Daylight
10.5–13.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
488 m
24.7°S
Clearest
Jun
19% cloud

Thulamahashi is human settlement in South Africa.

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

Thulamahashi 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 mid April to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Thulamahashi stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is January, with an average high of 29°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 11°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in June.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2920
Feb2921
Mar2920
Apr2717
May2614
Jun2411
Jul2411
Aug2513
Sep2716
Oct2817
Nov2919
Dec2920

Average hourly temperature in Thulamahashi

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 11°C.

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

Thulamahashi 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° / 20°1321413.44.8
Feb29° / 21°11212.112.94.9
Mar29° / 20°7811.112.25.6
Apr27° / 17°396.411.47.3
May26° / 14°122.510.88.5
Jun24° / 11°71.810.59.1
Jul24° / 11°92.410.69.0
Aug25° / 13°13311.18.6
Sep27° / 16°264.611.87.7
Oct28° / 17°488.312.66.6
Nov29° / 19°951213.25.3
Dec29° / 20°12414.113.54.8

Chance of rain

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

Thulamahashi gets about 694 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 5.8 months, from around Oct 13 to Apr 6, peaking in December at about 47% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 31.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 132 mm over about 14 wet days; June is the driest, with 7 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 13 · 47%May 31 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4514
Feb4312
Mar3511
Apr216
May93
Jun62
Jul82
Aug103
Sep155
Oct278
Nov4012
Dec4514

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Thulamahashi collects about 694 mm of rain across 92 wet days — roughly 58 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 132 mm, while June is the driest at just 7 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1321127839127913264895124
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan13214
Feb11212
Mar7811
Apr396
May123
Jun72
Jul92
Aug133
Sep265
Oct488
Nov9512
Dec12414

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Thulamahashi, 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 2 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around September 29. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 30 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around April 1. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 57% 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 · 89%Nov 28 · 37%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4951
Feb5644
Mar6436
Apr7228
May8614
Jun8812
Jul8713
Aug8218
Sep7426
Oct5545
Nov4357
Dec4456

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 5, 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)
Jan13.45:236:46
Feb12.95:446:36
Mar12.25:596:10
Apr11.46:135:38
May10.86:275:16
Jun10.56:415:10
Jul10.66:435:19
Aug11.16:255:33
Sep11.85:545:45
Oct12.65:235:58
Nov13.25:046:17
Dec13.55:066:37

Sunny days

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

Thulamahashi averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Apr 10 to Oct 1. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 24 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 8 sunny days — about 68% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 224 daysDec 47 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr17Bright
May23Bright
Jun24Brilliant
Jul24Brilliant
Aug22Bright
Sep19Bright
Oct13Mixed
Nov8Mixed
Dec8Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around October 28 to April 19. The muggiest month is February, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 95% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 20 to October 27, and June 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 6 · 100%Feb 7 · 4%oppressivemuggycomfortabledryhumidhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan16325110
Feb05335111
Mar21444374
Apr16363990
May6329700
Jun946000
Jul973000
Aug8911000
Sep6529600
Oct32392630
Nov102642211
Dec21341386

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 Thulamahashi is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around Aug 9 to Mar 9. The windiest month is September, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 10 to Aug 8, with May the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeSep 23 · 11 km/hMay 12 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Thulamahashi

In seasonPeak

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

Thulamahashi's rainy season runs November–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 Thulamahashi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid September, Thulamahashi 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 Thulamahashi for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid April to late September, with a peak score in the third week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 17 · 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
Jan4.8fair
Feb4.9fair
Mar5.7good
Apr7.3good
May8.5ideal
Jun9.1ideal
Jul9.0ideal
Aug8.5ideal
Sep7.7ideal
Oct6.6good
Nov5.4fair
Dec4.9fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Thulamahashi for hot-weather activities is from mid February to mid November, with a peak score in the first week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 3 · 8.1

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 Thulamahashi, 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.

Thulamahashi packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In January, Thulamahashi sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 14 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Thulamahashi 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 Thulamahashi peaks around January 20 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 at about 5 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighHighVery highExtremeJan 20UV 14Jun 21UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr8Very high
May6High
Jun5Moderate
Jul5High
Aug7High
Sep8Very high
Oct10Very high
Nov12Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Thulamahashi

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
Apr6.53.5
May50
Jun4.50
Jul50
Aug63
Sep74
Oct7.55.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Thulamahashi 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 Thulamahashi is worst in July — around 32 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.6× the cleanest month (January, 12 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJul 1832 µg/m³Jan 1612 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Moderate
Feb13Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May31Moderate
Jun30Moderate
Jul32Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep26Moderate
Oct19Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Thulamahashi 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. Thulamahashi banks about 4,314 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)
Jan463
Feb418
Mar437
Apr363
May307
Jun232
Jul228
Aug285
Sep343
Oct383
Nov406
Dec448

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.

Thulamahashi receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around Aug 31 to Mar 24. The brightest month is December, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 36% less than the December peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 306.0 kWhJun 293.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr4.5Bright
May4.1Bright
Jun3.7Moderate
Jul3.8Moderate
Aug4.5Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Thulamahashi?

Thulamahashi sits at 24.7°S, 31.2°E, 488 m above sea level, in South Africa. The nearest listed city is Dwarsloop, 12 km away.

Topography around Thulamahashi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Thulamahashi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 93 m around an average of 466 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 474 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,085 m.

The land around Thulamahashi is covered by grassland (27%), shrubs (25%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 3 km, shrubs (33%) and grassland (33%) within 16 km, and grassland (44%) and shrubs (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
93 m
16 km
474 m
80 km
2,085 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Dwarsloop 12 km · Mafemani 14 km · Acornhoek 19 km · Hlanganani 26 km · Calcutta 29 km · Mkhuhlu 30 km · Sabie 59 km · White River 70 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 Thulamahashi (-24.7246°, 31.1994°, elevation 488 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).