The coastal city of Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay) enjoys a daily average of 7 hours of sunshine annually. Winter (April-August) temperatures range from 7.1 degrees C (44.8 degrees F) to 19.5 degrees C (61.3 degrees F) and 25.4 degrees C (77.8 degrees F). Peak rainfall (500-650 mm) occurs in spring and autumn.
In general, the weather of the Eastern Cape is kind to visitors. Rarely reaching extremes except perhaps in the height of the Karoo summer, its nature depends not so much upon how it changes, but how much you move across the province's expanse and into and out of different climatological zones. And, given the wonderful variety of sights and sounds on offer in the Eastern Cape, enjoy in turn the squelch and the scrape under your tyres as you experience these distinctive weather types, stretched across the province like a traveling circus of the elements.
