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Barometric pressure in Cebu City

1012hPa
Steady

Day to day, 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.

now33° / 27°32° / 27°33° / 27°35° / 26°33° / 26°32° / 26°33° / 26°33° / 26°32° / 26°31° / 25°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 2910061008101010121014
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

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

Light drizzle33° / 26°0.9 mm

low 1009 · high 1012 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle33° / 26°2.7 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Dense drizzle32° / 26°5.7 mm

low 1009 · high 1013 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

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

Light drizzle31° / 25°4.8 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle32° / 26°2.7 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle32° / 26°0.9 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle32° / 26°0.9 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Partly cloudy28°1011
01:00Partly cloudy27°1010
02:00Partly cloudy27°1010
03:00Overcast27°1010
04:00Overcast26°1010
05:00Overcast26°1010
06:00Overcast27°1011
07:00Overcast29°1011
08:00Overcast30°1011
09:00Overcast31°1011
10:00Overcast32°1011
11:00Overcast33°1011
12:00Light drizzle33°0.31010
13:00Light drizzle33°0.31010
14:00Light drizzle33°0.31009
15:00Overcast33°1009
16:00Overcast32°1009
17:00Overcast31°1009
18:00Overcast31°1010
19:00Overcast30°1010
20:00Overcast29°1011
21:00Overcast28°1011
22:00Overcast28°1011
23:00Overcast27°1012

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

What happens next

Nothing in the week ahead moves pressure far from where it is now.

The daily rhythm

In Cebu City 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

Cebu City sits 56 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 6 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1005 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 Cebu City.

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 Cebu City 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 Cebu City, which stands 56 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 6 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.