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Barometric pressure in Nay Pyi Taw

1010hPa
Rising

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has risen slowly. Up 2 hPa since this time yesterday. It has levelled off and stays close to where it is now for the week ahead.

Sea level reading, as of 22:00 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° / 24°31° / 24°30° / 25°29° / 25°31° / 25°29° / 25°30° / 24°29° / 23°31° / 24°30° / 24°29° / 24°29° / 24°28° / 24°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29100010051010
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 +2 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Rain30° / 24°29.9 mm

low 1007 · high 1010 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

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

Rain29° / 23°14.7 mm

low 1006 · high 1010 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Rain31° / 24°20.2 mm

low 1005 · high 1010 hPa

WedAug 26 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Rain30° / 24°21.3 mm

low 1002 · high 1009 hPa

ThuAug 27 −1 hPa

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

Light rain29° / 24°21.7 mm

low 1002 · high 1006 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Rain29° / 24°34.9 mm

low 1001 · high 1006 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Light rain28° / 24°25.3 mm

low 1004 · high 1006 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast25°1008
01:00Light drizzle25°0.41007
02:00Light drizzle25°0.41007
03:00Light drizzle24°0.41007
04:00Drizzle24°0.91007
05:00Drizzle24°0.91007
06:00Drizzle24°0.91007
07:00Light rain25°1.51008
08:00Light rain25°1.51009
09:00Light rain26°1.51009
10:00Light rain27°1.81009
11:00Light rain29°1.81009
12:00Light rain30°1.81008
13:00Light rain29°1.71008
14:00Light rain28°1.71007
15:00Light rain27°1.71007
16:00Rain26°3.51007
17:00Rain25°3.51007
18:00Rain25°3.51008
19:00Light drizzle25°0.11009
20:00Light drizzle25°0.11010
21:00Light drizzle25°0.11010
22:00Light drizzle25°0.11010
23:00Light drizzle24°0.11010

Of the seven days, today moves most: up 2 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Nay Pyi Taw pressure moves on a daily clock: about 3 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

Nay Pyi Taw sits 123 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 14 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 996 hPa as of 22:00.

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 Nay Pyi Taw.

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 Nay Pyi Taw 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 Nay Pyi Taw, which stands 123 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 14 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.