Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Guwahati

Wind Pattern in Guwahati

Windrose of Guwahati shows that dominant wind blow from the WSW much of the time - about 14.85% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 2.51% (max) of the time the wind blows from the WSW at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s. Further, at Guwahati much of the time winds blow at speeds between 1 and 2 m/s - which is 47.89% of the time. About 5.1% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

WSW[14.9%]

Dominant Direction

1-2m/s

Speed Range

1.7m/s

average speed

5.10%

calm

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

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

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 1.28 2.47 0.27 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.16
NNE 0.41 1.37 6.03 1.37 0.00 0.00 0.00 9.18
NE 0.55 1.14 6.94 4.02 0.55 0.09 0.00 13.29
ENE 0.27 0.96 4.61 4.16 1.10 0.27 0.09 11.46
E 0.37 1.00 2.10 1.19 0.37 0.00 0.00 5.03
ESE 0.27 0.50 0.78 0.09 0.05 0.00 0.00 1.69
SE 0.27 0.50 0.59 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.45
SSE 0.23 0.73 0.64 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.65
S 0.27 0.55 1.60 0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.56
SSW 0.27 0.73 2.28 0.68 0.09 0.05 0.00 4.10
SW 0.18 0.87 4.29 3.70 1.74 0.68 0.09 11.55
WSW 0.41 0.87 5.34 4.66 2.47 0.73 0.37 14.85
W 0.41 0.87 4.06 1.32 0.23 0.14 0.00 7.03
WNW 0.37 1.23 2.51 0.78 0.05 0.00 0.00 4.94
NW 0.41 0.87 2.05 0.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.88
NNW 0.27 1.00 1.60 0.32 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.19
Total 5.10 14.47 47.89 23.39 6.65 1.96 0.55 100

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