Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Kochi

Wind Pattern in Kochi

Windrose of Kochi shows that dominant wind blow from the WNW much of the time - about 18.86% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 5.57% (max) of the time the wind blows from the WNW at speeds are more than 5 m/s. Further, at Kochi much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 8.31 m/s - which is 28.49% of the time. About 2.02% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

WNW[18.9%]

Dominant Direction

2-8.31m/s

Speed Range

2.9m/s

average speed

2.02%

calm

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

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

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 0.37 1.42 0.78 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.66
NNE 0.32 0.50 1.51 0.73 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.06
NE 0.09 0.50 2.01 1.64 0.18 0.00 0.00 4.42
ENE 0.00 0.50 2.42 3.97 2.05 0.14 0.00 9.08
E 0.18 0.50 2.51 2.83 0.91 0.23 0.00 7.16
ESE 0.27 0.41 1.74 0.96 0.41 0.09 0.05 3.93
SE 0.14 0.41 1.42 0.59 0.37 0.05 0.00 2.98
SSE 0.05 0.32 0.68 0.68 0.27 0.00 0.00 2.00
S 0.23 0.23 1.05 0.55 0.05 0.00 0.05 2.16
SSW 0.05 0.32 0.91 0.68 0.23 0.05 0.05 2.29
SW 0.14 0.37 1.74 1.42 0.64 0.05 0.00 4.36
WSW 0.18 0.55 1.37 2.65 2.19 0.64 0.18 7.76
W 0.00 0.41 1.42 2.56 2.33 1.60 4.02 12.34
WNW 0.14 0.27 1.51 3.61 4.06 3.70 5.57 18.86
NW 0.05 0.41 1.00 2.83 4.43 2.33 1.10 12.15
NNW 0.09 0.27 1.14 2.01 1.10 0.18 0.05 4.84
Total 2.02 6.34 23.85 28.49 19.22 9.06 11.07 100

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