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Barometric pressure in Gejiu

1009hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. It holds near this level for the coming days.

Sea level reading, as of 01:00 local time. A barometer in Gejiu itself reads about 821 hPa.

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.

now23° / 17°24° / 18°22° / 18°23° / 17°25° / 17°25° / 19°26° / 18°25° / 19°25° / 18°21° / 18°24° / 17°23° / 18°22° / 18°24° / 17°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30100510101015
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.

Dense drizzle25° / 19°9.0 mm

low 1004 · high 1010 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Drizzle25° / 18°8.7 mm

low 1004 · high 1010 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Rain21° / 18°25.8 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle24° / 17°7.2 mm

low 1004 · high 1009 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain23° / 18°13.5 mm

low 1004 · high 1009 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain22° / 18°18.9 mm

low 1006 · high 1009 hPa

SunAug 30 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle24° / 17°8.1 mm

low 1006 · high 1009 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast20°1010
01:00Overcast20°1009
02:00Overcast20°1009
03:00Light drizzle19°0.11008
04:00Light drizzle19°0.11008
05:00Light drizzle19°0.11008
06:00Clear sky19°1008
07:00Clear sky20°1009
08:00Clear sky20°1010
09:00Drizzle21°0.91010
10:00Drizzle21°0.91010
11:00Drizzle22°0.91010
12:00Dense drizzle23°1.21010
13:00Dense drizzle24°1.21009
14:00Dense drizzle25°1.21008
15:00Light drizzle25°0.21006
16:00Light drizzle25°0.21005
17:00Light drizzle25°0.21004
18:00Mainly clear23°1005
19:00Mainly clear22°1006
20:00Mainly clear21°1008
21:00Drizzle20°0.61009
22:00Drizzle19°0.61010
23:00Drizzle19°0.61010

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 6 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Gejiu 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

Gejiu sits 1805 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 188 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 821 hPa as of 01:00.

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 Gejiu.

Cities nearby

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

Wondering how clean the air is? See today's air quality in Gejiu, 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 Gejiu, which stands 1805 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 188 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.