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Barometric pressure in Xingning

1002hPa
Steady

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

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.

now35° / 26°34° / 26°34° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 26°32° / 25°29° / 25°31° / 25°34° / 25°28° / 26°30° / 25°28° / 26°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 3099510001005
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

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Light rain32° / 25°24.6 mm

low 999 · high 1004 hPa

TueAug 25 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Rain29° / 25°30.0 mm

low 1002 · high 1005 hPa

WedAug 26 0 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Rain31° / 25°16.8 mm

low 1003 · high 1006 hPa

ThuAug 27 −5 hPa

Falls quickly, most of it in the afternoon.

Light drizzle34° / 25°0.6 mm

low 999 · high 1005 hPa

FriAug 28 +2 hPa

Falls first, then climbs in the evening.

Heavy rain28° / 26°73.8 mm

low 997 · high 1002 hPa

SatAug 29 +1 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Light rain30° / 25°8.1 mm

low 1001 · high 1003 hPa

SunAug 30 +2 hPa

Edges up slowly through the day.

Drizzle28° / 26°10.8 mm

low 1003 · high 1005 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Light drizzle26°0.21002
01:00Light drizzle26°0.21002
02:00Light drizzle26°0.21001
03:00Light rain25°1.41001
04:00Light rain25°1.41001
05:00Light rain25°1.41001
06:00Light rain25°2.21002
07:00Light rain25°2.21002
08:00Light rain25°2.21003
09:00Light drizzle26°0.41003
10:00Light drizzle28°0.41002
11:00Light drizzle29°0.41002
12:00Light drizzle31°0.11001
13:00Light drizzle32°0.1999
14:00Light drizzle32°0.1999
15:00Light rain31°2.3999
16:00Light rain28°2.3999
17:00Light rain27°2.31000
18:00Dense drizzle26°1.21001
19:00Dense drizzle26°1.21002
20:00Dense drizzle25°1.21003
21:00Light drizzle25°0.41003
22:00Light drizzle25°0.41003
23:00Light drizzle25°0.41004

Biggest change: Thursday, down 5 hPa.

What happens next

The low point comes this afternoon, near 999 hPa; after that it rises.

The daily rhythm

In Xingning 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

Xingning sits 122 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 14 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 988 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 Xingning.

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 Xingning 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 Xingning, which stands 122 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 14 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.