Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Vapi

Wind Pattern in Vapi

Windrose of Vapi shows that dominant wind blow from the WSW much of the time - about 24.88% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 13.38% (max) of the time the wind blows from the WSW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Vapi much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 9.12 m/s - which is 27.45% of the time. About 0.66% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

WSW[24.9%]

Dominant Direction

2-9.12m/s

Speed Range

3.6m/s

average speed

0.66%

calm

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

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

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 1.32 2.74 1.19 0.14 0.00 5.57
NNE 0.00 0.27 0.68 2.97 1.83 0.27 0.18 6.20
NE 0.09 0.32 1.64 3.65 1.69 0.59 0.46 8.44
ENE 0.00 0.18 1.51 2.92 1.55 0.64 0.55 7.35
E 0.05 0.18 1.23 1.19 1.74 0.55 0.14 5.08
ESE 0.09 0.32 0.32 0.27 0.05 0.00 0.00 1.05
SE 0.00 0.23 0.46 0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.83
SSE 0.00 0.09 0.23 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.37
S 0.05 0.05 0.18 0.23 0.05 0.14 0.09 0.79
SSW 0.05 0.09 0.46 0.73 0.41 0.41 0.91 3.06
SW 0.00 0.14 0.78 2.24 2.74 2.24 6.85 14.99
WSW 0.05 0.18 0.68 2.28 4.11 4.20 13.38 24.88
W 0.05 0.05 0.87 1.87 1.92 1.96 0.91 7.63
WNW 0.05 0.09 0.64 1.46 0.91 0.46 0.09 3.70
NW 0.18 0.14 1.05 2.88 1.28 0.23 0.00 5.76
NNW 0.00 0.32 1.19 1.83 0.91 0.09 0.00 4.34
Total 0.66 2.83 13.24 27.45 20.38 11.92 23.56 100

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