Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Thiruvananthapuram

Wind Pattern in Thiruvananthapuram

Windrose of Thiruvananthapuram shows that dominant wind blow from the WNW much of the time - about 26.13% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 15.53% (max) of the time the wind blows from the WNW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Thiruvananthapuram much of the time winds blow at speeds between 5 and 10.50 m/s - which is 26.63% of the time. About 1.55% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

WNW[26.1%]

Dominant Direction

5-10.50m/s

Speed Range

3.8m/s

average speed

1.55%

calm

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

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

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 0.14 0.68 1.05 0.41 0.05 0.05 0.00 2.38
NNE 0.09 0.37 0.96 0.64 0.09 0.00 0.00 2.15
NE 0.09 0.32 1.37 1.28 1.28 0.55 0.18 5.07
ENE 0.18 0.27 1.78 3.70 4.16 3.84 0.64 14.57
E 0.00 0.32 1.05 2.47 3.42 0.91 0.09 8.26
ESE 0.09 0.23 0.82 1.37 1.14 0.41 0.05 4.11
SE 0.09 0.32 0.73 0.68 0.59 0.18 0.00 2.59
SSE 0.05 0.18 0.78 0.73 0.23 0.05 0.00 2.02
S 0.09 0.14 0.59 0.78 0.23 0.05 0.00 1.88
SSW 0.27 0.18 0.55 1.00 0.18 0.05 0.00 2.23
SW 0.05 0.05 1.46 0.82 0.27 0.14 0.00 2.79
WSW 0.09 0.05 0.32 1.28 0.55 0.46 1.10 3.85
W 0.00 0.32 0.73 1.51 1.69 1.64 6.67 12.56
WNW 0.09 0.14 0.73 2.01 3.29 4.34 15.53 26.13
NW 0.05 0.37 0.64 1.10 1.37 1.83 2.37 7.73
NNW 0.18 0.18 0.55 0.46 0.23 0.14 0.00 1.74
Total 1.55 4.12 14.11 20.24 18.77 14.64 26.63 100

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