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Barometric pressure in Baoji

1010hPa
Rising

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has risen slowly. A rise of 1 hPa since this time yesterday. That rise is ending: it turns and falls until Wednesday afternoon.

Sea level reading, as of 00:00 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° / 23°24° / 21°30° / 21°31° / 21°32° / 22°32° / 24°31° / 23°32° / 24°33° / 24°33° / 25°33° / 24°27° / 24°28° / 23°27° / 20°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 301000100510101015
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 24 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 24°3.0 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

TueAug 25 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 24°4.2 mm

low 1003 · high 1009 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle33° / 25°4.8 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

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

Overcast33° / 24°

low 1001 · high 1007 hPa

FriAug 28 +5 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Dense drizzle27° / 24°21.9 mm

low 1007 · high 1011 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Overcast28° / 23°2.1 mm

low 1010 · high 1012 hPa

SunAug 30 +1 hPa

Still barely moving.

Overcast27° / 20°

low 1011 · high 1013 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light drizzle26°0.31010
01:00Light drizzle25°0.31009
02:00Light drizzle25°0.31009
03:00Light drizzle24°0.21009
04:00Light drizzle24°0.21009
05:00Light drizzle24°0.21009
06:00Mainly clear24°1009
07:00Partly cloudy24°1010
08:00Partly cloudy25°1010
09:00Light drizzle26°0.11010
10:00Light drizzle28°0.11010
11:00Light drizzle29°0.11010
12:00Light drizzle30°0.11009
13:00Light drizzle31°0.11007
14:00Light drizzle32°0.11006
15:00Light drizzle32°0.21006
16:00Light drizzle32°0.21005
17:00Light drizzle32°0.21005
18:00Light drizzle31°0.11005
19:00Light drizzle30°0.11006
20:00Light drizzle29°0.11006
21:00Clear sky28°1007
22:00Clear sky27°1008
23:00Mainly clear27°1009

Friday has the week's biggest move: up 5 hPa.

What happens next

Pressure bottoms out near 1002 hPa on Wednesday afternoon, and rises after that.

The daily rhythm

Baoji 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

Baoji sits 642 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 71 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 939 hPa as of 00:00.

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 Baoji.

Cities nearby

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

Out in the sun today? Check the UV level in Baoji, 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 Baoji, which stands 642 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 71 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.