Potchefstroom is a medium size city with approximately 250 000 residents. Our summers are hot with low humidity and average rainfall of 767 mm per year. Mild to hot summer months with temperatures varying between an average of 18° - 34°, seldom rising to 39°. Cold winters varying between 2° - 18° with frost occurring on average 43 nights per year. We never experience gale force winds, snow storms or any natural disasters. The city is 1343m above sea level.