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Barometric pressure in Aracaju

1016hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. From here it rises until tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 13:00 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.

now28° / 22°27° / 24°28° / 23°28° / 22°28° / 20°30° / 19°27° / 23°28° / 22°29° / 23°28° / 22°28° / 22°29° / 22°28° / 22°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291012.51015.01017.51020.01022.5
The forecast runs 7 days ahead.

The week ahead

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

TodayAug 23 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle27° / 23°3.0 mm

low 1016 · high 1019 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

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

Partly cloudy28° / 22°0.6 mm

low 1017 · high 1020 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle29° / 23°0.8 mm

low 1016 · high 1019 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle28° / 22°0.4 mm

low 1014 · high 1018 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle28° / 22°1.8 mm

low 1014 · high 1018 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle29° / 22°2.4 mm

low 1015 · high 1018 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle28° / 22°1.2 mm

low 1015 · high 1018 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear24°1017
01:00Mainly clear24°1017
02:00Partly cloudy24°1017
03:00Partly cloudy24°1017
04:00Partly cloudy23°1017
05:00Mainly clear23°1017
06:00Clear sky23°1017
07:00Light drizzle24°0.31018
08:00Light drizzle25°0.31019
09:00Light drizzle26°0.31019
10:00Light drizzle27°0.41019
11:00Light drizzle27°0.41018
12:00Light drizzle27°0.41017
13:00Light drizzle27°0.21016
14:00Light drizzle27°0.21016
15:00Light drizzle27°0.21016
16:00Light drizzle27°0.11016
17:00Light drizzle26°0.11016
18:00Light drizzle25°0.11017
19:00Partly cloudy25°1018
20:00Partly cloudy25°1019
21:00Overcast25°1019
22:00Partly cloudy25°1019
23:00Partly cloudy25°1019

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 4 hPa.

What happens next

Pressure tops out near 1020 hPa tomorrow morning, and falls after that.

The daily rhythm

Aracaju has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 3 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

Aracaju sits 11 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 1015 hPa as of 13:00.

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 Aracaju.

Cities nearby

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

Wondering how clean the air is? See today's air quality in Aracaju, on our sister site airindex.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 Aracaju, which stands 11 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.