Southern Africa SA Weather Forecasts & Maps
Southern Africa SA Weather Forecasts, Temperatures, Rainfall, Wind, Clouds & Satellite Maps
Our Southern African SA weather forecast maps are updated daily every day at 16h00, we also provide daily and weekly weather maps and snow news for Namibia and Botswana, simply click the links to access them. Weather Maps for Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Eswatini will also be coming soon.
Southern Africa Weather Forecasts, Temperatures, Rainfall, Wind, Clouds & Satellite Maps
Our Southern African weather forecast maps are updated daily every day at 16h00, we also provide daily and weekly weather maps and snow news for Namibia and Botswana, simply click the links to access them. Weather Maps for Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Eswatini will also be coming soon.
Satellite Photos of Southern Africa
Enjoy our wide selection of weather satellite images of Africa, South Africa and Southern Africa from EUMetsat / Meteosat. We have a wide selection of satellite images that are updated hourly including customized satellite images with city and province boundary overlays of South Africa. Also check out our specialized composite satellite images that give the most beautiful and spectacular views of our planet from space using our own specialized image generation algorithms that give you both day and night views of our planet and weather.
Natural Color Visible Satellite Image of South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
Infrared Satellite Image (RGB) Composite South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
Natural Color Visible Satellite Image of South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
Infrared Satellite Image (RGB) Composite South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
Cloud Cover HRV Satellite Image of South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
Convection / Severe Storms in South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
Cloud Cover HRV Satellite Image of South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
Convection / Severe Storms in South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimate (MPE) Rainfall - Sunday 8 March 2026
Airmass Satellite Image of South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimate (MPE) Rainfall - Sunday 8 March 2026
Airmass Satellite Image of South Africa - Sunday 8 March 2026
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Ultimate Weather in the Palm of your Hands
People Love Weather and We Love People. We have worked uber hard to bring the Ultimate Free Weather Resource for South Africa to you. We pride ourselves on providing High Quality, up to date and timely weather images, weather photos of Southern Africa, weather and rain forecasts and Peoples weather forecasts to South African citizens. Our custom and automated server technologies ensure that all images are always kept up to date. We also make use of highly specialized back end web server techniques to ensure that we prevent any images from being cached or stored by your web browser. This means you never have to fiddle with clearing the cache of your web browser or trying to "unsuccessfully" refresh a web page as is the case with some other web sites. When you click on any page within this weather web site you will always be seeing the latest images. Unlike the Weather our Web Site is Predictable and We guarantee a 99.99% uptime throughout the year meaning our weather information is always right at your fingertips 24 hours a day. Our web site is also fully mobile compliant and mobile friendly meaning that our weather information is always with you wherever you go.
This web site is a work in progress and amazing new features, new imagery and new functionality are being added frequently. Best of all, our site is 100% free to use. We will almost always find any bugs or annoyances before you do but we welcome any comments, feedback, bug reports or suggestions. We also welcome contributions or collaborations so if you feel you have something to offer to improve this web site please do get in contact with us. Contacting us is as simple as CLICKING HERE. AfriWX.co.za is one of Southern Africa's busiest mobile weather web sites with well over a million users. Please contact us for a rate card if you would like to advertise.
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Stunningly Beautiful Africa Weather Satellite Photos
We currently offer some of the most advanced and highest quality, fast loading and Near Real Time (Live) Weather Satellite Images for Southern Africa and assure you they are always current satellite images of south africa with what is available from EUMETSAT / Meteosat and also from Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) University of Wisconsin (UW). We also have a customized overlay of South African Provinces and Major Cities to help you understand the satellite images much easier.
Amazing Animated Weather Satellite Images
We provide some of the most beautiful animated satellite images and pictures for South Africa which we create specially through our proprietary server technologies. Our animated satellite photos are always up to date with what is available and we also include a special province and city overlay for South Africa to help make your task of interpreting them just that much easier. Go and watch some amazingly beautiful views of our spinning planet at our animated satellite images page.
Weather Maps and Images for Aviation & Pilots
Our vast collection of near real time and current satellite photos, animated satellite images, GFS weather maps, cloud cover maps, Cloud Top Height (CTH) Satellite, Multi-Sensor Precipitation or MPE Estimates, animated cloud top heights (CTH), atmospheric motion vectors (AMV), cloud visibility maps and satellite imagery, GFS cloud forecasts, live wind maps, 7-Day Weather Forecasts for all cities around South Africa with the ability to select your favorite city so that every time you return you go straight to the 7 Day weather outlook for your city or town. And we have so much more which makes us the ideal one stop site to help Pilots, Aviators and even Drone Pilots to plan their journeys and flights.
Global Forecast System (GFS) Weather Maps
AfriWX is also the go to source for the Global Forecast System (GFS) weather maps for South Africa. We have created specially customized GFS Maps especially for South Africa which are zoomed in to Southern Africa thereby making viewing and interpretation an absolute breeze for our users. The WXMaps are provided by COLA and George Mason University through their amazing weather maps resource at wxmaps.org. All images remain copyright to the aforementioned institutions, we only provide them in a customized format for Southern Africa weather enthusiasts and we watermark them accordingly. Our Weather Maps and Charts provide a 7 day outlook into predicted weather patterns in both 00z and 12z time frames. Please make no mistake that the GFS Maps are ONLY A GUIDELINE and weather patterns can and do change frequently. The weather charts are provided and only to be used as a guideline. We have a comprehensive selection of GFS Weather Maps from 1-7 days in advance (00HR, 12HR, 24HR, 36HR, 48HR, 60HR, 72HR, 96HR, 120HR, 144HR), as well as 2 Week or 15 Day Extended Rainfall Forecasts and even Long Term Extended 3 Months Rainfall Outlook Maps. Quite simply put, we have it all under one roof, always up to date and lightning fast too.
All the Weather Forecast Information and Maps You Need in One Place
We also provide a variety of Precipitation and Rainfall forecast maps including daily recorded rainfall figures and monthly recorded rainfall figures as issued by the South African Weather Weather Services (Public Documents). We also make available Storm, Radar and Lightning Maps for South Africa as provided by the South African Weather Service and Africa Weather. We have a variety of other weather resources like ENSO - El Niño and La Niña Updates for Southern Africa, Near Real Time Storm and Lightning Reports, the State of Dams and Hydrology Maps for South Africa and a variety of weather resources like Weather Web Cams around South Africa, South African Weather Blog, Weather FAQs and Weather Facts, Technical and Education Weather Information, Moon Calendar and Lunar Phases for the Southern Hemisphere.
Lightning is not something to play around with
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We have lightning detection and warning systems for personal, home and business use, lightning detection systems for golf courses, lightning detection and warning systems for mining, industry and agriculture and lightning detection and warning systems for schools, stadiums and athletics fields. You simply will not find better, real time lightning detection systems anywhere in South Africa and you won't beat the product backup and support of SA Weather Shop
SNOW NEWS & SNOW REPORTS
Get the Best Snow Forecast Maps & Reports in South Africa
Visit Snow News for all the latest snow forecast maps and snow reporting for Southern Africa.
What about Space Weather?
Most people are totally unaware of how much importance the activities on the Sun affect our planet and weather. Solar flares, sun spots, coronal mass ejections and radiation streams emanating from the Sun play a massively importance role on the magnetism of our planet and absolutely 100% affects weather patterns, despite what any scientist might tell you. We therefore include some special focus pages for weather enthusiasts to be able to watch just about everything going on with the Sun such as Solar Weather / Space Weather (Sun) Activity Data aka. "What's Happening on the Sun Right Now?" Sun Spots, Coronal Holes, Coronal Mass Ejections (CME), Aurora (Northern Lights) Forecasts and much more still coming. We also have a variety of links to other interesting weather web sites and weather resources.
About AfriWX
AfriWX is an independent weather interest web site. Previously known as SAWX which is the abbreviation for South Africa (SA) Weather (WX). WX is the internationally recognized morse code abbrevation for weather. Weather may be unpredictable but our web site weather service is totally predictable. We are an independent web site and are not affiliated nor linked with any other institutions or web sites and we are committed to bring you the best and most timely Weather Photos of Southern Africa and Weather and Rain Forecasts. We are NOT affiliated NOR linked to the South African Weather Service. This web site makes no forecasts, claims, predictions or issues any weather warnings. Please be sure to read our DISCLAIMER and PRIVACY POLICY. Please be sure to pay attention to and adhere to the copyright on all images used from the respective institutions as published on this web site.
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Our Telegram Weather Group is aimed at Weather Enthusiasts and Storm Chasers. Through this Telegram group sharing of live, real-time weather information from across the country becomes possible to all participants on the group. Group members can share their photos and videos and have them shared across our social platforms. This group will also help members get much better notifications on storms and severe weather without having to rely on other social channels. We will make this the Ultimate Weather Telegram Group for South Africa. We are no longer supporting Whatsapp for various reasons, primarily the security and privacy of our users is of great importance and Whatsapp (owned by Facebook) is no longer trustworthy in this regard. Telegram is even better than Whatsapp and is 100% free. Click Here to Join Now our Telegram Group Now
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