Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Mangalore

Wind Pattern in Mangalore

Windrose of Mangalore shows that dominant wind blow from the W much of the time - about 16.78% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 4.9% (max) of the time the wind blows from the W at speeds between 3 and 4 m/s. Further, at Mangalore much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s - which is 28.03% of the time. About 2.16% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

W[16.8%]

Dominant Direction

2-3m/s

Speed Range

3.0m/s

average speed

2.16%

calm

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

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

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 0.38 0.48 2.26 2.88 0.72 0.00 0.00 6.72
NNE 0.10 0.38 2.09 1.23 0.21 0.00 0.00 4.01
NE 0.14 0.51 1.81 0.51 0.17 0.03 0.00 3.17
ENE 0.17 0.65 1.47 1.37 0.82 0.31 0.00 4.79
E 0.14 0.38 1.30 1.30 0.72 0.14 0.00 3.98
ESE 0.10 0.41 1.03 0.92 0.45 0.03 0.00 2.94
SE 0.07 0.24 0.79 0.62 0.10 0.00 0.00 1.82
SSE 0.14 0.31 0.68 0.31 0.14 0.00 0.00 1.58
S 0.17 0.21 0.58 0.27 0.24 0.10 0.00 1.57
SSW 0.10 0.27 0.99 0.41 0.07 0.00 0.03 1.87
SW 0.21 0.45 1.44 0.89 0.45 0.07 0.17 3.68
WSW 0.07 0.31 1.20 2.19 1.20 1.13 0.58 6.68
W 0.10 0.24 1.92 2.40 2.64 2.05 7.43 16.78
WNW 0.10 0.34 1.34 3.59 4.90 3.15 3.12 16.54
NW 0.00 0.51 1.30 4.93 5.20 1.44 0.51 13.89
NNW 0.17 0.55 1.30 4.21 3.18 0.38 0.21 10.00
Total 2.16 6.24 21.50 28.03 21.21 8.83 12.05 100

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