Today
Has it rained enough in Bloemfontein?
Rain soaked properly in 2 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Bloemfontein has had 163.8mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 16.3mm a normal September brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (51.8mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
15 SeptToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
4 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Bloemfontein through a normal year
Across a normal year Bloemfontein gets about 515.8mm of rain, most of it in January (81.8mm) and least in July (7.4mm).
A normal September in Bloemfontein has rain on 4 days. Only 2 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Bloemfontein one of the drier places this site covers in South Africa in September — 6th of 8, against Durban at the wet end (64.7mm) and Polokwane at the dry end (11.6mm).
JanFMAMJJulASOND
Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.