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Barometric pressure in Rach Gia

1011hPa
Falling

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has fallen slowly. It is 1 hPa lower than this time yesterday. It has levelled off and stays close to where it is now for the week ahead.

Sea level reading, as of 23:00 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.

now31° / 26°28° / 26°30° / 26°31° / 27°32° / 26°32° / 26°30° / 26°29° / 27°29° / 26°30° / 25°29° / 25°29° / 25°28° / 25°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29100410061008101010121014
The forecast runs 6 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

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

Light drizzle30° / 26°2.7 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain29° / 27°13.1 mm

low 1008 · high 1011 hPa

TueAug 25 +1 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light rain29° / 26°13.9 mm

low 1008 · high 1012 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

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

Light rain30° / 25°16.7 mm

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

ThuAug 27 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Dense drizzle29° / 25°14.9 mm

low 1007 · high 1011 hPa

FriAug 28 +1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light rain29° / 25°11.2 mm

low 1007 · high 1012 hPa

SatAug 29 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Light drizzle28° / 25°8.5 mm

low 1009 · high 1011 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear27°1012
01:00Mainly clear27°1011
02:00Partly cloudy26°1011
03:00Partly cloudy26°1010
04:00Overcast26°1010
05:00Overcast26°1010
06:00Overcast26°1010
07:00Overcast27°1011
08:00Light drizzle28°0.11011
09:00Light drizzle29°0.11012
10:00Light drizzle30°0.11012
11:00Drizzle30°0.81012
12:00Drizzle30°0.81011
13:00Drizzle30°0.81010
14:00Overcast30°1010
15:00Overcast30°1009
16:00Overcast30°1008
17:00Overcast29°1009
18:00Partly cloudy29°1009
19:00Partly cloudy28°1010
20:00Partly cloudy28°1010
21:00Mainly clear28°1011
22:00Mainly clear28°1011
23:00Mainly clear28°1011

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

What happens next

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

The daily rhythm

In Rach Gia 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

Rach Gia is at sea level, so a barometer there reads about the same as the sea-level figure.

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 Rach Gia.

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 Rach Gia 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. Weather services correct readings to what they would be at sea level, so that cities can be compared. Rach Gia is at sea level, so there is almost nothing to correct and the two figures agree.

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.