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Barometric pressure in Yanji

1010hPa
Falling

Day to day, pressure has been falling slowly. It is 3 hPa lower than this time yesterday. The fall carries on 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.

now27° / 21°28° / 21°28° / 21°29° / 19°28° / 19°29° / 22°30° / 22°29° / 21°28° / 20°27° / 17°26° / 15°24° / 14°20° / 18°20° / 16°Mon 17Tue 18Wed 19Thu 20Fri 21Sat 22Sun 23Mon 24Tue 25Wed 26Thu 27Fri 28Sat 29Sun 301000100510101015
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

Barely moves all day.

Dense drizzle29° / 21°6.3 mm

low 1009 · high 1011 hPa

TueAug 25 −1 hPa

Still barely moving.

Overcast28° / 20°1.2 mm

low 1009 · high 1011 hPa

WedAug 26 +1 hPa

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

Partly cloudy27° / 17°1.2 mm

low 1005 · high 1009 hPa

ThuAug 27 +4 hPa

Rises steadily through the day.

Light drizzle26° / 15°

low 1008 · high 1013 hPa

FriAug 28 −2 hPa

Eases down slowly through the day.

Overcast24° / 14°

low 1011 · high 1014 hPa

SatAug 29 −8 hPa

Falls quickly through the day.

Rain20° / 18°26.1 mm

low 1003 · high 1011 hPa

SunAug 30 0 hPa

Barely moves all day.

Rain20° / 16°37.8 mm

low 1001 · high 1003 hPa

Hour by hour
Today Aug 24
HourWeather and temperatureRain (mm)Pressure (hPa)
00:00Mainly clear24°1010
01:00Mainly clear23°1010
02:00Partly cloudy23°1010
03:00Mainly clear23°1010
04:00Mainly clear23°1011
05:00Mainly clear23°1011
06:00Mainly clear24°1011
07:00Partly cloudy25°1011
08:00Partly cloudy25°1011
09:00Light drizzle26°0.11011
10:00Light drizzle27°0.11011
11:00Light drizzle28°0.11010
12:00Overcast28°1010
13:00Overcast29°1009
14:00Overcast28°1009
15:00Light drizzle28°0.21009
16:00Light drizzle27°0.21009
17:00Light drizzle26°0.21009
18:00Dense drizzle24°1.21009
19:00Dense drizzle23°1.21010
20:00Dense drizzle22°1.21010
21:00Drizzle21°0.61010
22:00Drizzle21°0.61010
23:00Drizzle21°0.61009

Saturday has the week's biggest move: down 8 hPa.

What happens next

The lowest reading, about 1009 hPa, comes this afternoon; it climbs from there.

The daily rhythm

Yanji has a strong daily rhythm: pressure swings about 2 hPa between a regular low and high, at almost the same hours each day. Most of what the graph shows is that daily wave, which is why the change since yesterday says more here than the change over a few hours.

Your own barometer

Yanji sits 179 m above sea level, so a barometer in the city reads about 21 hPa lower than the sea-level figure. A home station set to the local reading should show about 989 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 Yanji.

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 Yanji 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 Yanji, which stands 179 m above sea level, is in the note above: about 21 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.