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Barometric pressure in Bau-Bau

1015hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. A climb is beginning, and runs until this morning.

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.

now33° / 22°32° / 21°31° / 22°31° / 22°31° / 22°32° / 21°31° / 21°32° / 21°31° / 21°32° / 21°33° / 21°31° / 22°32° / 22°33° / 24°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 301007.51010.01012.51015.01017.5
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 24 +1 hPa

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

Overcast32° / 21°

low 1012 · high 1017 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Mainly clear31° / 21°

low 1012 · high 1017 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Clear sky32° / 21°

low 1012 · high 1016 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Clear sky33° / 21°

low 1011 · high 1016 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle31° / 22°3.0 mm

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 22°

low 1011 · high 1015 hPa

SunAug 30 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast33° / 24°

low 1010 · high 1015 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Partly cloudy23°1015
01:00Mainly clear22°1015
02:00Mainly clear22°1014
03:00Mainly clear21°1014
04:00Partly cloudy21°1015
05:00Overcast21°1015
06:00Partly cloudy22°1016
07:00Mainly clear24°1016
08:00Clear sky25°1017
09:00Clear sky27°1017
10:00Clear sky29°1016
11:00Mainly clear30°1016
12:00Partly cloudy31°1014
13:00Overcast32°1013
14:00Overcast32°1012
15:00Partly cloudy32°1012
16:00Mainly clear30°1012
17:00Clear sky29°1012
18:00Mainly clear27°1013
19:00Partly cloudy26°1014
20:00Overcast25°1015
21:00Overcast24°1015
22:00Overcast23°1016
23:00Overcast23°1016

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 5 hPa.

What happens next

The high point comes this morning, near 1017 hPa; after that it falls.

The daily rhythm

In Bau-Bau pressure moves on a daily clock: about 4 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

Bau-Bau sits 33 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 4 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1011 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 Bau-Bau.

Cities nearby

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

Curious what you are breathing? See the air quality in Bau-Bau today, 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 Bau-Bau, which stands 33 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 4 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.