Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Jaisalmer

Wind Pattern in Jaisalmer

Windrose of Jaisalmer shows that dominant wind blow from the SSW much of the time - about 20.46% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 14.02% (max) of the time the wind blows from the SSW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Jaisalmer much of the time winds blow at speeds between 5 and 13.50 m/s - which is 26.18% of the time. About 0.94% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

SSW[20.5%]

Dominant Direction

5-13.50m/s

Speed Range

3.9m/s

average speed

0.94%

calm

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

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

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 0.18 0.41 1.37 1.28 0.32 0.09 3.65
NNE 0.00 0.09 1.28 1.23 1.32 0.73 0.23 4.88
NE 0.05 0.05 0.64 1.78 2.15 1.42 0.14 6.23
ENE 0.09 0.09 0.50 1.60 1.92 0.73 0.23 5.16
E 0.05 0.14 0.78 1.74 1.83 0.41 0.09 5.04
ESE 0.09 0.09 1.32 2.15 0.64 0.18 0.05 4.52
SE 0.05 0.18 0.96 2.15 0.78 0.05 0.00 4.17
SSE 0.09 0.18 0.91 1.46 0.68 0.00 0.05 3.37
S 0.05 0.32 0.78 0.59 0.91 0.78 0.82 4.25
SSW 0.09 0.05 0.64 1.19 1.55 2.92 14.02 20.46
SW 0.05 0.32 0.73 1.64 2.88 2.97 8.72 17.31
WSW 0.05 0.27 0.87 1.00 1.51 0.73 0.87 5.30
W 0.05 0.09 1.00 0.96 1.00 0.73 0.37 4.20
WNW 0.14 0.05 1.10 0.96 0.91 0.64 0.23 4.03
NW 0.00 0.14 0.73 1.60 0.78 0.41 0.18 3.84
NNW 0.09 0.05 0.73 1.60 0.64 0.46 0.09 3.66
Total 0.94 2.29 13.38 23.02 20.78 13.48 26.18 100

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