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Barometric pressure in An Nhơn

1006hPa
Falling

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has fallen slowly. Down 2 hPa since this time yesterday. It has levelled off and stays close to where it is now for the week ahead.

Sea level reading, as of 23:00 local time.

The past week and the days ahead

The shaded part shows the days already gone. The thicker line is the forecast. The thin grey line is the average over a whole day, so you can see where pressure is heading under the daily up and down.

now36° / 28°36° / 27°32° / 26°35° / 27°35° / 27°36° / 28°37° / 28°36° / 28°37° / 28°36° / 28°36° / 28°35° / 28°35° / 28°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29997.51000.01002.51005.01007.51010.0
The forecast runs 6 days ahead.

The week ahead

Each day at a glance: how far pressure moves, and the low and high it reaches.

TodayAug 23 −1 hPa

Dips in the afternoon, and comes back by the end of the day.

Overcast37° / 28°

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Overcast36° / 28°

low 1001 · high 1006 hPa

TueAug 25 +2 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Overcast37° / 28°

low 1001 · high 1006 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light drizzle36° / 28°

low 1002 · high 1006 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light drizzle36° / 28°1.2 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light drizzle35° / 28°1.2 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle35° / 28°1.8 mm

low 1004 · high 1006 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast29°1007
01:00Overcast29°1006
02:00Overcast29°1005
03:00Overcast28°1004
04:00Overcast28°1004
05:00Overcast29°1005
06:00Overcast29°1005
07:00Overcast30°1006
08:00Overcast31°1006
09:00Overcast32°1006
10:00Overcast34°1006
11:00Overcast35°1006
12:00Overcast36°1005
13:00Overcast37°1004
14:00Overcast37°1004
15:00Overcast36°1003
16:00Overcast35°1003
17:00Overcast33°1004
18:00Overcast32°1004
19:00Overcast31°1005
20:00Overcast31°1006
21:00Overcast31°1006
22:00Overcast30°1007
23:00Partly cloudy30°1006

A quiet week. Nothing moves more than 5 hPa in a day.

What happens next

Nothing in the week ahead moves pressure far from where it is now.

The daily rhythm

An Nhơn has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 4 hPa between a regular low and high, at almost the same hours each day. Most of what the graph shows is that daily wave, which is why the change since yesterday says more here than the change over a few hours.

Your own barometer

An Nhơn sits 9 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 1 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1005 hPa as of 23:00.

The hours already past are the model's record of each hour as it passed, anchored to real observations, though not a reading from an instrument in An Nhơn.

Cities nearby

Open one to see its pressure, or search for your own city at the top of the page.

Watching the sun as well? See how strong the UV is in An Nhơn right now, on our sister site uvi.today.

Common questions

What is a normal barometric pressure?

Near 1013 hPa at sea level; the exact standard figure, 1013.25 hPa, is the same as 760 mmHg, 29.92 inHg or 101.3 kPa. Anything between roughly 1000 and 1025 hPa is ordinary. Which way it is going matters far more than the number itself.

Why does my own barometer show a different number?

Usually altitude, and sometimes the instrument itself. Weather services correct readings to what they would be at sea level, so that cities can be compared. The figure for An Nhơn, which stands 9 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 1 hPa below the sea-level reading. If your barometer is already set to sea level and still reads slightly differently, that is the setting on the instrument rather than the weather.

Is a millibar the same as a hectopascal?

Yes. One millibar and one hectopascal are exactly the same amount of pressure, so 1013 mbar and 1013 hPa mean the same thing. The name changed; the number did not.

Does falling pressure mean rain?

Not by itself. Away from the tropics, falling pressure usually means a low is approaching, and lows carry the fronts that bring cloud and rain, so the two often arrive together. But a shallow fall can pass with nothing more than cloud, and rain falls under steady pressure too. The graph tells you a system is on the way, not how wet it will be. The week ahead, just above, shows the rain forecast beside the pressure.