Today
Has it rained enough in East London?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
East London has had 155.4mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 55.8mm a normal September brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (120.1mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
15 SeptToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
5 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in East London through a normal year
Across a normal year East London gets about 738mm of rain, most of it in March (86.4mm) and least in July (28.5mm).
A normal September in East London has rain on 10 days. Only 6 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes East London one of the wetter places this site covers in South Africa in September — 2nd of 8, against Durban at the wet end (64.7mm) and Polokwane at the dry end (11.6mm).
JFMarAMJJulASOND
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.