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Barometric pressure in Kēng Tung

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 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.

now30° / 23°31° / 24°28° / 24°31° / 23°31° / 23°31° / 23°32° / 24°31° / 24°32° / 24°28° / 24°27° / 23°27° / 23°25° / 23°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291000.01002.51005.01007.51010.0
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 24 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle31° / 24°1.2 mm

low 1004 · high 1009 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain32° / 24°8.7 mm

low 1004 · high 1009 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle28° / 24°7.6 mm

low 1002 · high 1008 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

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

Rain27° / 23°39.8 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Rain27° / 23°26.2 mm

low 1002 · high 1007 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

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

Light rain25° / 23°18.7 mm

low 1005 · high 1007 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast24°1009
01:00Light drizzle24°0.11008
02:00Light drizzle24°0.11008
03:00Light drizzle24°0.11008
04:00Overcast24°1008
05:00Overcast24°1009
06:00Overcast24°1009
07:00Overcast26°1009
08:00Partly cloudy27°1009
09:00Partly cloudy29°1009
10:00Partly cloudy30°1008
11:00Partly cloudy31°1007
12:00Partly cloudy31°1006
13:00Light drizzle31°0.21005
14:00Light drizzle31°0.21004
15:00Light drizzle30°0.21004
16:00Light drizzle29°0.11004
17:00Light drizzle27°0.11005
18:00Light drizzle26°0.11006
19:00Overcast26°1007
20:00Overcast25°1008
21:00Overcast25°1009
22:00Overcast25°1009
23:00Overcast24°1008

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

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Kēng Tung 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

Kēng Tung sits 670 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 74 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 934 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 Kēng Tung.

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 Kēng Tung 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 Kēng Tung, which stands 670 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 74 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.