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Barometric pressure in Quận Năm

1011hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. It stays close to where it is now through the week ahead.

Sea level reading, as of 11:00 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 dotted line is the average over a whole day, so you can see where pressure is heading under the daily up and down.

now33° / 25°31° / 26°32° / 26°33° / 26°31° / 26°32° / 26°31° / 26°29° / 24°30° / 25°29° / 25°32° / 25°30° / 26°32° / 26°21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 30Mon 31Tue 1Wed 2Thu 3100410061008101010121014
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 28 +1 hPa

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

Dense drizzle31° / 26°8.0 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle29° / 24°11.5 mm

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

SunAug 30 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain30° / 25°11.7 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

MonAug 31 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain29° / 25°8.4 mm

low 1007 · high 1011 hPa

TueSep 1 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain32° / 25°7.2 mm

low 1007 · high 1011 hPa

WedSep 2 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain30° / 26°10.2 mm

low 1007 · high 1010 hPa

ThuSep 3 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Drizzle32° / 26°5.0 mm

low 1007 · high 1010 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 28
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Overcast27°1012
01:00Overcast27°1011
02:00Overcast27°1011
03:00Overcast26°1010
04:00Overcast26°1010
05:00Overcast26°1010
06:00Overcast26°1011
07:00Overcast27°1011
08:00Light drizzle27°0.11011
09:00Light drizzle28°0.11012
10:00Light drizzle29°0.11012
11:00Light drizzle30°0.11011
12:00Light drizzle31°0.11010
13:00Light drizzle31°0.11009
14:00Dense drizzle31°1.11008
15:00Dense drizzle29°1.11008
16:00Dense drizzle28°1.11008
17:00Dense drizzle27°1.21008
18:00Dense drizzle27°1.21008
19:00Dense drizzle27°1.21009
20:00Light drizzle26°0.11010
21:00Light drizzle26°0.11011
22:00Light drizzle26°0.11012
23:00Light drizzle26°0.21012

A calm stretch: no day this week moves more than 5 hPa.

What happens next

The forecast shows no big move in either direction this week.

The daily rhythm

In Quận Năm 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

Quận Năm sits 15 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 2 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1009 hPa as of 11:00.

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 Quận Năm.

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 Quận Năm 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 Quận Năm, which stands 15 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 2 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.