Climate Information Tool

Near real-time surveillance of climate-related hazards and climate-sensitive health outcomes, providing accessible data and visualisations to support early warning, risk communication and evidence-based public health decision-making across South Africa.

Use this view to switch from the standard post listing to a searchable table, helping you quickly find and compare climate tools and atlases with essential information at a glance.

Credible and policy-relevant climate science to inform climate change responses, translating evidence on changing rainfall, temperature and extremes into actionable insights for adaptation planning and decision-making at sub-national level in South Africa.

The South African Atlas of Climatology and Agrohydrology (SAAACA) provides freely available daily weather data at the quaternary catchment scale for the period extending from 1950 up to 1999. The Atlas provides a detailed overview of climate patterns, hydrology, and their impact on agriculture in South Africa.

Explore and view data from the CSIR Green Book's Risk Tool including projections for temperature, rainfall, fire danger, heat stress, groundwater depletion, and coastal flooding. Compare these with average climate metrics including minimum and maximum temperature extremes (1950-2000) derived from the South African Atlas of Agrohydrology and Climatology.

ClimateSERV enables users to easily visualize and download 180-day rainfall and temperature forecasts, as well as historic rainfall and vegetation conditions.

BGIS is a central hub for biodiversity planning and related information, managing spatial data like the National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) terrestrial threatened ecosystem data. The user-friendly mapping platform enables visualization of key biodiversity features, allowing users to add, toggle layers, annotate, and print maps.

The Global Drought Monitor assesses worldwide drought conditions using continent-specific inputs, providing a comprehensive view. Global drought indices and indicators supplement the assessment.

The Olifants River Flow Tracker allows near real-time monitoring of flow and dams, with a weather forecast feature.

The Participatory Assessment of Climate and Disaster Risks (PACDR) tool consists of seven modules that build upon each other to enable users to systematically integrate the consideration of climate and disaster risks into community planning and development.

Spatially represents daily Fire Danger Index values as and when issued by SAWS.

AFIS is a near real time operational satellite fire monitoring system that provides information regarding the prediction, detection and assessment of fires.