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Barometric pressure in Saint-Denis

1024hPa
Steady

Day to day, pressure has barely moved. From here it falls until tomorrow afternoon.

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.

now25° / 16°24° / 18°25° / 19°26° / 17°27° / 18°26° / 18°25° / 16°26° / 15°26° / 14°26° / 16°26° / 15°25° / 15°23° / 16°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 291020.01022.51025.01027.51030.0
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 23 0 hPa

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

Light drizzle25° / 16°1.2 mm

low 1022 · high 1025 hPa

MonAug 24 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle26° / 15°0.6 mm

low 1022 · high 1025 hPa

TueAug 25 0 hPa

The same daily dip.

Light drizzle26° / 14°1.2 mm

low 1022 · high 1025 hPa

WedAug 26 −1 hPa

The same daily dip.

Partly cloudy26° / 16°

low 1022 · high 1025 hPa

ThuAug 27 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light drizzle26° / 15°1.8 mm

low 1022 · high 1025 hPa

FriAug 28 +3 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Light drizzle25° / 15°4.5 mm

low 1023 · high 1028 hPa

SatAug 29 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Mainly clear23° / 16°

low 1026 · high 1030 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Partly cloudy17°1024
01:00Partly cloudy16°1024
02:00Partly cloudy16°1024
03:00Partly cloudy17°1023
04:00Mainly clear17°1023
05:00Mainly clear16°1023
06:00Partly cloudy16°1024
07:00Partly cloudy16°1024
08:00Mainly clear19°1024
09:00Mainly clear22°1025
10:00Mainly clear24°1025
11:00Light drizzle25°0.11024
12:00Light drizzle25°0.11024
13:00Light drizzle25°0.11023
14:00Light drizzle25°0.21023
15:00Light drizzle24°0.21022
16:00Light drizzle23°0.21022
17:00Light drizzle23°0.11023
18:00Light drizzle22°0.11023
19:00Light drizzle21°0.11024
20:00Partly cloudy20°1024
21:00Mainly clear20°1024
22:00Mainly clear19°1024
23:00Mainly clear18°1025

Biggest change: Friday, up 3 hPa.

What happens next

Pressure bottoms out near 1022 hPa tomorrow afternoon, and rises after that.

The daily rhythm

In Saint-Denis pressure moves on a daily clock: about 2 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

Saint-Denis sits 34 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 4 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 1020 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 Saint-Denis.

Cities nearby

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

Wondering how clean the air is? See today's air quality in Saint-Denis, on our sister site airindex.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 Saint-Denis, which stands 34 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 4 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.