Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Shimla

Wind Pattern in Shimla

Windrose of Shimla shows that dominant wind blow from the NE much of the time - about 31.6% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately % (max) of the time the wind blows from the NE at speeds between and m/s. Further, at Shimla much of the time winds blow at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s - which is 49.33% of the time. About 2.21% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

NE[31.6%]

Dominant Direction

1-2m/s

Speed Range

1.7m/s

average speed

2.21%

calm

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

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

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 0.05 0.41 1.10 1.55 0.23 0.00 0.00 3.34
NNE 0.14 0.78 3.93 5.11 0.18 0.00 0.00 10.14
NE 0.32 5.39 21.28 4.34 0.27 0.00 0.00 31.60
ENE 0.14 1.42 3.65 1.23 0.23 0.00 0.00 6.67
E 0.05 0.68 1.60 0.27 0.09 0.00 0.00 2.69
ESE 0.18 0.59 0.96 0.27 0.05 0.00 0.00 2.05
SE 0.23 0.59 1.05 0.27 0.05 0.05 0.00 2.24
SSE 0.05 0.23 1.05 0.37 0.09 0.00 0.00 1.79
S 0.14 0.55 0.64 0.23 0.05 0.00 0.00 1.61
SSW 0.14 0.46 1.46 0.55 0.09 0.00 0.00 2.70
SW 0.14 0.59 1.60 0.78 0.05 0.00 0.00 3.16
WSW 0.18 0.64 2.51 2.88 0.46 0.05 0.00 6.72
W 0.09 0.55 3.61 4.29 1.51 0.23 0.00 10.28
WNW 0.18 0.78 2.10 3.56 0.82 0.46 0.14 8.04
NW 0.09 0.41 1.83 1.23 0.18 0.00 0.00 3.74
NNW 0.09 0.64 0.96 1.37 0.23 0.00 0.00 3.29
Total 2.21 14.71 49.33 28.30 4.58 0.79 0.14 100

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