Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Surat

Wind Pattern in Surat

Windrose of Surat shows that dominant wind blow from the SW much of the time - about 22.38% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 8.04% (max) of the time the wind blows from the SW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Surat much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 9.42 m/s - which is 28.97% of the time. About 0.71% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

SW[22.4%]

Dominant Direction

2-9.42m/s

Speed Range

3.6m/s

average speed

0.71%

calm

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

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

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 0.00 1.37 2.47 1.55 0.09 0.00 5.57
NNE 0.00 0.18 1.32 4.02 1.28 0.41 0.05 7.26
NE 0.00 0.18 1.28 4.89 2.01 0.68 0.32 9.36
ENE 0.05 0.27 0.91 3.42 1.69 0.55 0.64 7.53
E 0.05 0.27 0.55 1.14 1.14 0.46 0.00 3.61
ESE 0.05 0.18 0.37 0.23 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.88
SE 0.09 0.09 0.50 0.27 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.95
SSE 0.14 0.05 0.37 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.65
S 0.00 0.14 0.32 0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.60
SSW 0.09 0.14 0.37 0.46 0.46 0.59 1.05 3.16
SW 0.00 0.05 0.46 2.65 3.74 3.93 11.55 22.38
WSW 0.05 0.09 0.78 2.24 3.84 4.66 8.04 19.70
W 0.00 0.18 0.82 1.60 1.92 0.82 0.37 5.71
WNW 0.05 0.23 0.46 1.42 1.00 0.09 0.00 3.25
NW 0.05 0.23 1.14 2.15 0.96 0.00 0.05 4.58
NNW 0.00 0.05 1.51 1.78 1.46 0.05 0.05 4.90
Total 0.71 2.33 12.53 28.97 21.10 12.33 22.12 100

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