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Barometric pressure in Liverpool

1026hPa
Steady

A quiet stretch: pressure has barely moved over the past day. A fall is beginning, and runs until Friday evening.

Sea level reading, as of 16:00 local time.

The past week and the days ahead

The shaded part shows the days already gone. The thicker line is the forecast.

now19° / 15°18° / 16°18° / 15°17° / 13°17° / 12°17° / 11°17° / 11°20° / 12°22° / 14°23° / 16°21° / 17°19° / 15°18° / 16°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29100010101020
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

Barely moves all day.

Partly cloudy17° / 11°

low 1025 · high 1027 hPa

MonAug 24 −6 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Partly cloudy20° / 12°

low 1018 · high 1025 hPa

TueAug 25 −5 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Overcast22° / 14°

low 1012 · high 1018 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Drizzle23° / 16°4.5 mm

low 1010 · high 1013 hPa

ThuAug 27 −7 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Dense drizzle21° / 17°6.0 mm

low 1004 · high 1010 hPa

FriAug 28 −3 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Dense drizzle19° / 15°8.8 mm

low 1000 · high 1003 hPa

SatAug 29 +5 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Light drizzle18° / 16°3.6 mm

low 1001 · high 1005 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky14°1026
01:00Clear sky13°1026
02:00Mainly clear14°1026
03:00Partly cloudy14°1025
04:00Overcast14°1025
05:00Overcast13°1025
06:00Partly cloudy12°1026
07:00Partly cloudy11°1026
08:00Mainly clear12°1026
09:00Mainly clear14°1026
10:00Mainly clear15°1026
11:00Mainly clear16°1027
12:00Mainly clear17°1027
13:00Mainly clear17°1027
14:00Mainly clear17°1026
15:00Partly cloudy17°1026
16:00Partly cloudy17°1026
17:00Mainly clear17°1026
18:00Clear sky17°1025
19:00Clear sky16°1025
20:00Clear sky16°1025
21:00Clear sky15°1025
22:00Clear sky14°1025
23:00Clear sky13°1025

Of the seven days, Thursday moves most: down 7 hPa.

What happens next

Pressure bottoms out near 1000 hPa on Friday evening, and rises after that.

Your own barometer

Liverpool sits 25 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 3 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1023 hPa as of 16:00.

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 Liverpool.

About Liverpool

A port city near the Irish Sea, Liverpool keeps its barometer moving. Sharp changes come on about 79 days in an average year, with January and November the most active months. Around 47 days a year fall below 1000 hPa, so low readings are a familiar sight. The highest average pressure comes in April and the lowest in November. The city sits low, so a home barometer reads only a few hectopascals below the sea-level figures here.

Sources: WikipediaERA5 reanalysisElevation: Copernicus DEM via Open-Meteo

Cities nearby

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

Wondering if this weather is normal? See what the weather in Liverpool has done since 1940, on our sister site weatherjourney.com.

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 Liverpool, which stands 25 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 3 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.