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Barometric pressure in Purwakarta

1013hPa
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.

now34° / 24°34° / 25°33° / 25°35° / 24°35° / 24°36° / 24°35° / 24°36° / 24°36° / 24°36° / 24°34° / 24°34° / 25°35° / 23°36° / 24°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 301007.51010.01012.51015.0
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 +1 hPa

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

Clear sky36° / 24°

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Partly cloudy36° / 24°

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Rain36° / 24°9.0 mm

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle34° / 24°0.6 mm

low 1010 · high 1014 hPa

FriAug 28 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Clear sky34° / 25°

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy35° / 23°

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

SunAug 30 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Clear sky36° / 24°

low 1009 · high 1013 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky26°1013
01:00Clear sky25°1013
02:00Clear sky25°1013
03:00Clear sky24°1012
04:00Clear sky24°1012
05:00Clear sky24°1013
06:00Clear sky24°1013
07:00Clear sky25°1014
08:00Clear sky27°1014
09:00Clear sky29°1014
10:00Clear sky32°1014
11:00Clear sky33°1013
12:00Clear sky35°1012
13:00Clear sky36°1011
14:00Clear sky35°1010
15:00Clear sky33°1010
16:00Clear sky32°1010
17:00Clear sky30°1011
18:00Clear sky29°1011
19:00Clear sky28°1012
20:00Clear sky28°1013
21:00Clear sky27°1014
22:00Clear sky27°1014
23:00Clear sky27°1014

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 6 hPa.

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Purwakarta 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

Purwakarta sits 75 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 9 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1005 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 Purwakarta.

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 Purwakarta 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 Purwakarta, which stands 75 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 9 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.