Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Bengaluru

Wind Pattern in Bengaluru

Windrose of Bengaluru shows that dominant wind blow from the W much of the time - about 20.69% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 3.74% (max) of the time the wind blows from the W at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Bengaluru much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 10.48 m/s - which is 26.6% of the time. About 0.85% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

W[20.7%]

Dominant Direction

2-10.48m/s

Speed Range

3.4m/s

average speed

0.85%

calm

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

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

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 0.09 0.18 0.50 0.55 0.27 0.18 0.00 1.77
NNE 0.05 0.14 0.73 0.87 0.50 0.09 0.14 2.52
NE 0.00 0.05 1.00 1.19 0.68 0.68 0.68 4.28
ENE 0.00 0.09 2.92 4.79 2.42 1.74 0.18 12.14
E 0.05 0.14 3.70 6.89 4.75 2.37 0.73 18.63
ESE 0.09 0.09 2.01 3.97 2.10 1.10 0.37 9.73
SE 0.05 0.18 1.78 1.64 0.59 0.23 0.09 4.56
SSE 0.09 0.23 1.19 0.91 0.18 0.00 0.00 2.60
S 0.00 0.09 0.87 0.68 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.64
SSW 0.05 0.05 0.96 0.46 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.52
SW 0.14 0.37 1.32 0.46 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.29
WSW 0.14 0.18 1.23 0.73 0.78 0.68 0.96 4.70
W 0.05 0.32 1.83 1.32 2.15 3.74 11.28 20.69
WNW 0.05 0.27 1.51 1.23 1.51 1.64 3.74 9.95
NW 0.00 0.05 0.82 0.50 0.14 0.23 0.14 1.88
NNW 0.00 0.05 0.55 0.41 0.09 0.00 0.00 1.10
Total 0.85 2.48 22.92 26.60 16.16 12.68 18.31 100

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