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Barometric pressure in Puente de Vallecas

1010hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. A rise begins this evening.

Sea level reading, as of 19:00 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.

now36° / 19°38° / 22°35° / 21°30° / 20°31° / 18°32° / 19°33° / 19°26° / 18°27° / 16°28° / 17°23° / 16°26° / 11°30° / 14°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29101010151020
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

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast33° / 19°

low 1010 · high 1016 hPa

MonAug 24 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle26° / 18°2.4 mm

low 1012 · high 1015 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

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

Overcast27° / 16°

low 1013 · high 1016 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

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

Overcast28° / 17°

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

ThuAug 27 +4 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Light drizzle23° / 16°1.8 mm

low 1013 · high 1018 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Clear sky26° / 11°

low 1018 · high 1021 hPa

SatAug 29 −4 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Clear sky30° / 14°

low 1016 · high 1021 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky25°1014
01:00Clear sky24°1014
02:00Clear sky23°1014
03:00Clear sky23°1014
04:00Clear sky22°1015
05:00Clear sky21°1015
06:00Clear sky20°1015
07:00Clear sky19°1016
08:00Clear sky19°1016
09:00Mainly clear21°1016
10:00Partly cloudy23°1016
11:00Partly cloudy26°1016
12:00Partly cloudy28°1016
13:00Mainly clear29°1015
14:00Mainly clear31°1014
15:00Mainly clear32°1013
16:00Partly cloudy32°1012
17:00Overcast33°1011
18:00Partly cloudy33°1011
19:00Mainly clear32°1010
20:00Clear sky31°1010
21:00Clear sky30°1011
22:00Mainly clear28°1012
23:00Mainly clear26°1012

Thursday has the week's biggest move: up 4 hPa.

What happens next

The low point comes this evening, near 1010 hPa; after that it rises.

The daily rhythm

In Puente de Vallecas 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

Puente de Vallecas sits 634 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 69 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 942 hPa as of 19:00.

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 Puente de Vallecas.

Cities nearby

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

Is this weather normal for the season? See how these days compare with Puente de Vallecas weather 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 Puente de Vallecas, which stands 634 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 69 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.