The coldest temperature ever recorded in South Africa was on August 3, 1993, in Buffelsfontein, which is in the Orange Free State. It was -16 degrees celsius! Thankfully, it doesn’t get that cold very often in South Africa!
The coldest temperature ever recorded in South Africa was -2.9ºC.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in South Africa was -2.9ºC, which occurred in the early morning hours of June 21, 2017. This record-breaking cold snap was caused by a cold front that brought very cold and dry air from the Antarctic continent. The previous record for the coldest temperature in South Africa was -2.8ºC, which was set in September 1966. The -2.9ºC reading is also the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.
