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Barometric pressure in Linfen

1009hPa
Steady

Beneath its daily wave, pressure has barely moved. From here it falls until Wednesday afternoon.

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.

now33° / 23°27° / 23°31° / 21°31° / 22°33° / 22°35° / 23°35° / 25°37° / 25°36° / 26°37° / 26°35° / 25°30° / 26°29° / 23°31° / 22°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 301000100510101015
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 0 hPa

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

Partly cloudy37° / 25°

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

TueAug 25 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle36° / 26°2.1 mm

low 1004 · high 1010 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

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

Overcast37° / 26°

low 1003 · high 1008 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Overcast35° / 25°

low 1003 · high 1008 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle30° / 26°3.9 mm

low 1004 · high 1008 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Light drizzle29° / 23°5.4 mm

low 1007 · high 1008 hPa

SunAug 30 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Overcast31° / 22°

low 1008 · high 1011 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast27°1009
01:00Overcast27°1009
02:00Overcast27°1009
03:00Partly cloudy26°1009
04:00Partly cloudy25°1009
05:00Mainly clear25°1009
06:00Mainly clear25°1009
07:00Partly cloudy26°1010
08:00Partly cloudy27°1010
09:00Mainly clear29°1010
10:00Mainly clear31°1010
11:00Clear sky33°1009
12:00Clear sky35°1008
13:00Clear sky36°1006
14:00Clear sky37°1005
15:00Clear sky37°1005
16:00Clear sky37°1005
17:00Clear sky36°1005
18:00Clear sky35°1005
19:00Clear sky33°1006
20:00Clear sky31°1007
21:00Clear sky30°1008
22:00Clear sky29°1009
23:00Mainly clear29°1009

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

What happens next

The low point comes on Wednesday afternoon, near 1003 hPa; after that it rises.

The daily rhythm

In Linfen 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

Linfen sits 458 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 51 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 958 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 Linfen.

Cities nearby

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

Out in the sun today? Check the UV level in Linfen, 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 Linfen, which stands 458 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 51 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.