If The Winds Blow From The Ocean To The Land,where Is The Pressure Higher?

The relatively higher pressure is over the ocean.

Crudely, it works like this. High pressure means that air is pushing down (from above, high in the atmosphere). When that air reaches the Earth's surface, where does it go? It has to go out to the sides, and that creates a breeze. So when the breeze is coming off the sea onto land, the pressure over the sea is higher.

When the breeze moves onto land, where does it go? If the pressure over land is sufficiently low, then the air rises into the sky. As it does so, clouds often form (laden with moisture from the sea but droplets precipitate out to make clouds with the lower pressures up high in the sky),.

Pressure may be higher over the ocean, because of bigger forces at work (the prevailing wind direction or weather fronts). Often the pattern of where pressure is high/low switches overnight -- so land breeze by day may become a seabreeze by night.

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