Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Visakhapatnam

Wind Pattern in Visakhapatnam

Windrose of Visakhapatnam shows that dominant wind blow from the WSW much of the time - about 18.35% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 4.55% (max) of the time the wind blows from the WSW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Visakhapatnam much of the time winds blow at speeds between 5 and 11.21 m/s - which is 28.45% of the time. About 0.77% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

WSW[18.4%]

Dominant Direction

5-11.21m/s

Speed Range

4.0m/s

average speed

0.77%

calm

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

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

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 0.07 0.24 0.45 0.41 0.03 0.03 0.21 1.44
NNE 0.00 0.14 0.65 0.82 0.45 0.24 0.82 3.12
NE 0.03 0.07 0.79 1.51 1.57 1.92 1.99 7.88
ENE 0.07 0.14 0.89 1.44 2.23 1.47 0.72 6.96
E 0.03 0.10 0.68 1.95 2.91 0.27 0.07 6.01
ESE 0.10 0.07 0.86 1.64 1.27 0.00 0.03 3.97
SE 0.00 0.03 0.48 1.16 0.48 0.00 0.00 2.15
SSE 0.03 0.10 0.55 1.34 0.72 0.07 0.03 2.84
S 0.00 0.17 0.82 1.20 1.99 0.79 0.38 5.35
SSW 0.07 0.07 0.92 1.78 2.60 3.49 5.00 13.93
SW 0.07 0.10 0.72 1.95 2.60 4.35 4.55 14.34
WSW 0.14 0.17 0.62 1.44 2.36 4.07 9.55 18.35
W 0.03 0.31 0.72 1.03 1.40 2.29 4.69 10.47
WNW 0.03 0.17 0.51 0.34 0.10 0.31 0.31 1.77
NW 0.10 0.03 0.34 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.07 0.57
NNW 0.00 0.21 0.27 0.17 0.10 0.03 0.03 0.81
Total 0.77 2.12 10.27 18.21 20.81 19.33 28.45 100

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