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Barometric pressure in Ila Orangun

1014hPa
Rising

Day to day, pressure has risen slowly. It is 1 hPa higher than this time yesterday. It has flattened out, and the week ahead keeps it near this level.

Sea level reading, as of 18:00 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° / 22°26° / 22°27° / 22°28° / 22°27° / 22°27° / 22°27° / 22°29° / 22°29° / 21°28° / 22°28° / 22°26° / 21°26° / 21°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291007.51010.01012.51015.01017.5
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 23 −1 hPa

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

Light rain27° / 22°15.0 mm

low 1014 · high 1018 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle29° / 22°6.5 mm

low 1011 · high 1016 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Rain29° / 21°25.3 mm

low 1010 · high 1015 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

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

Light rain28° / 22°9.7 mm

low 1010 · high 1015 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain28° / 22°12.3 mm

low 1012 · high 1016 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Rain26° / 21°26.9 mm

low 1011 · high 1016 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

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

Light drizzle26° / 21°9.6 mm

low 1012 · high 1015 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast23°1016
01:00Overcast23°1016
02:00Drizzle22°0.71016
03:00Drizzle22°0.71016
04:00Drizzle22°0.71016
05:00Dense drizzle22°1.21016
06:00Dense drizzle22°1.21015
07:00Dense drizzle22°1.21015
08:00Light drizzle22°0.11016
09:00Light drizzle23°0.11017
10:00Light drizzle24°0.11018
11:00Light drizzle25°0.41017
12:00Light drizzle26°0.41016
13:00Light drizzle27°0.41015
14:00Light rain26°2.11015
15:00Light rain25°2.11014
16:00Light rain24°2.11014
17:00Drizzle24°0.51014
18:00Drizzle24°0.51014
19:00Drizzle23°0.51014
20:00Overcast23°1015
21:00Partly cloudy23°1016
22:00Partly cloudy22°1016
23:00Partly cloudy22°1016

A quiet week, with no day moving more than 5 hPa.

What happens next

The forecast shows no big move in either direction this week.

The daily rhythm

In Ila Orangun 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

Ila Orangun sits 489 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 55 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 959 hPa as of 18:00.

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 Ila Orangun.

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 Ila Orangun 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 Ila Orangun, which stands 489 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 55 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.