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Barometric pressure in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste

1017hPa
Steady

Taking each day as a whole, pressure has barely moved. A climb is beginning, and runs until tomorrow morning.

Sea level reading, as of 16:00 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.

now33° / 18°32° / 18°33° / 16°34° / 18°27° / 17°26° / 13°27° / 11°28° / 13°27° / 15°20° / 17°30° / 16°34° / 17°36° / 22°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

Edges up slowly through the day.

Partly cloudy27° / 11°

low 1017 · high 1022 hPa

MonAug 24 −1 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast28° / 13°

low 1016 · high 1022 hPa

TueAug 25 −3 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Overcast27° / 15°

low 1015 · high 1020 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

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

Drizzle20° / 17°4.9 mm

low 1015 · high 1019 hPa

ThuAug 27 −4 hPa

Falls steadily through the day.

Mainly clear30° / 16°0.5 mm

low 1011 · high 1018 hPa

FriAug 28 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast34° / 17°

low 1009 · high 1014 hPa

SatAug 29 0 hPa

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

Overcast36° / 22°

low 1008 · high 1013 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 23
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Clear sky15°1020
01:00Clear sky14°1020
02:00Clear sky13°1020
03:00Clear sky13°1020
04:00Clear sky12°1020
05:00Clear sky11°1020
06:00Clear sky12°1020
07:00Clear sky13°1021
08:00Clear sky15°1022
09:00Clear sky17°1022
10:00Clear sky20°1022
11:00Clear sky23°1021
12:00Clear sky25°1020
13:00Clear sky26°1019
14:00Clear sky27°1018
15:00Clear sky27°1017
16:00Clear sky26°1017
17:00Clear sky24°1017
18:00Clear sky22°1018
19:00Mainly clear21°1019
20:00Partly cloudy19°1019
21:00Partly cloudy18°1020
22:00Overcast17°1021
23:00Partly cloudy16°1021

Of the seven days, Thursday moves most: down 4 hPa.

What happens next

The high point comes tomorrow morning, near 1022 hPa; after that it falls.

The daily rhythm

In Santa Bárbara d'Oeste pressure moves on a daily clock: about 5 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

Santa Bárbara d'Oeste sits 535 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 60 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 957 hPa as of 16:00.

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 Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.

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 Santa Bárbara d'Oeste 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, 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 Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, which stands 535 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 60 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.