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Barometric pressure in Botucatu

1018hPa
Steady

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

Sea level reading, as of 14:00 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.

now29° / 19°29° / 19°29° / 18°29° / 17°24° / 15°23° / 11°24° / 10°23° / 11°24° / 12°20° / 14°27° / 15°30° / 19°32° / 22°16Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29101010151020
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.

Mainly clear24° / 10°

low 1018 · high 1022 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

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

Overcast23° / 11°

low 1018 · high 1023 hPa

TueAug 25 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Overcast24° / 12°

low 1017 · high 1021 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Dense drizzle20° / 14°9.3 mm

low 1016 · high 1020 hPa

ThuAug 27 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Clear sky27° / 15°

low 1012 · high 1017 hPa

FriAug 28 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy30° / 19°

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

Climbs in the morning, then settles back.

Overcast32° / 22°

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky13°1020
01:00Clear sky12°1020
02:00Clear sky11°1019
03:00Clear sky11°1019
04:00Clear sky10°1019
05:00Mainly clear10°1020
06:00Mainly clear10°1020
07:00Mainly clear11°1021
08:00Clear sky13°1022
09:00Clear sky16°1022
10:00Clear sky18°1022
11:00Clear sky20°1021
12:00Clear sky22°1021
13:00Clear sky23°1020
14:00Clear sky24°1018
15:00Clear sky24°1018
16:00Clear sky23°1018
17:00Clear sky21°1018
18:00Clear sky19°1019
19:00Clear sky18°1020
20:00Mainly clear16°1021
21:00Mainly clear15°1021
22:00Partly cloudy14°1022
23:00Partly cloudy13°1022

Tuesday has the week's biggest move: down 3 hPa.

What happens next

The highest reading, about 1023 hPa, comes tomorrow morning; it falls from there.

The daily rhythm

Botucatu 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

Botucatu sits 802 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 89 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 929 hPa as of 14:00.

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 Botucatu.

Cities nearby

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

Wondering if this weather is normal? See what the weather in Botucatu has done since 1940, on our sister site weatherjourney.com.

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 Botucatu, which stands 802 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 89 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.