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Barometric pressure in Bānswāra

1007hPa
Steady

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has barely moved. Nothing in the week ahead takes it far from where it is now.

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.

now30° / 25°30° / 24°31° / 26°30° / 25°31° / 25°31° / 25°31° / 25°31° / 25°31° / 25°28° / 25°28° / 24°29° / 25°29° / 25°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291000.01002.51005.01007.51010.0
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

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle31° / 25°1.5 mm

low 1004 · high 1007 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle31° / 25°0.9 mm

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle31° / 25°1.8 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle28° / 25°12.3 mm

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle28° / 24°12.3 mm

low 1002 · high 1006 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle29° / 25°0.6 mm

low 1002 · high 1006 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle29° / 25°0.9 mm

low 1003 · high 1007 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast26°1006
01:00Overcast26°1005
02:00Overcast26°1005
03:00Partly cloudy25°1005
04:00Mainly clear25°1005
05:00Clear sky25°1005
06:00Light drizzle26°0.11006
07:00Light drizzle26°0.11006
08:00Light drizzle27°0.11007
09:00Light drizzle28°0.21007
10:00Light drizzle29°0.21007
11:00Light drizzle30°0.21007
12:00Light drizzle31°0.11006
13:00Light drizzle30°0.11006
14:00Light drizzle30°0.11005
15:00Light drizzle30°0.11004
16:00Light drizzle30°0.11004
17:00Light drizzle30°0.11004
18:00Mainly clear29°1004
19:00Mainly clear29°1005
20:00Partly cloudy28°1006
21:00Partly cloudy27°1006
22:00Overcast27°1007
23:00Overcast26°1007

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 5 hPa.

What happens next

The forecast shows no big move in either direction this week.

The daily rhythm

In Bānswāra pressure moves on a daily clock: about 3 hPa between its regular low and high, at much the same hours every day. That daily swing is most of the shape you see on the graph, so the change since yesterday tells you more here than the change over the past few hours.

Your own barometer

Bānswāra sits 220 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 25 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 982 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 Bānswāra.

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 Bānswāra 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 Bānswāra, which stands 220 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 25 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.