Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Ghaziabad

Wind Pattern in Ghaziabad


Windrose of Ghaziabad shows that dominant wind blow from the WNW much of the time - about 20.73% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 9.18% (max) of the time the wind blows from the WNW at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s. Further, at Ghaziabad much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s - which is 35.45% of the time. About 2.75% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

WNW[20.7%]

Dominant Direction

2-3m/s

Speed Range

2.4m/s

average speed

2.75%

calm

The annual wind rose below showing how wind speed and direction are typically distributed in Ghaziabad.


This table shows the frequency and speed of wind blowing from each direction in Ghaziabad.

Table of Frequencies (%)


Table of Frequencies (%)
Direction < 0.5 0.5-1.0 1.0-2.0 2.0-3.0 3.0-4.0 4.0-5.0 > 5.0 Total
N 0.00 0.41 1.69 2.05 0.14 0.00 0.00 4.29
NNE 0.14 0.46 1.42 0.82 0.14 0.05 0.00 3.03
NE 0.09 0.37 1.14 0.68 0.09 0.00 0.00 2.37
ENE 0.23 0.23 2.19 1.42 0.09 0.05 0.09 4.30
E 0.18 0.46 2.74 1.96 0.78 0.50 0.37 6.99
ESE 0.23 0.55 2.65 2.47 2.05 1.32 1.60 10.87
SE 0.14 0.46 1.74 1.42 0.91 0.50 0.14 5.31
SSE 0.14 0.41 0.91 0.37 0.05 0.09 0.00 1.97
S 0.37 0.14 0.73 0.23 0.09 0.00 0.00 1.56
SSW 0.18 0.27 0.73 0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.32
SW 0.09 0.50 1.37 0.41 0.05 0.00 0.00 2.42
WSW 0.09 0.46 1.74 0.59 0.18 0.05 0.05 3.16
W 0.23 0.59 2.28 1.92 0.37 0.41 0.18 5.98
WNW 0.23 0.32 4.25 7.95 5.11 2.28 0.59 20.73
NW 0.23 0.41 3.33 9.18 4.11 0.73 0.18 18.17
NNW 0.18 0.37 2.60 3.84 0.59 0.00 0.00 7.58
Total 2.75 6.41 31.51 35.45 14.75 5.98 3.20 100

The graph below shows the minimum, maximum and average wind speed, m/s over the year in Ghaziabad.