Indian Climate - Wind Pattern in Bhubaneswar

Wind Pattern in Bhubaneswar

Windrose of Bhubaneswar shows that dominant wind blow from the SSW much of the time - about 16.58% of all hourly wind directions. Approximately 5.07% (max) of the time the wind blows from the SSW at speeds between 3 and 4 m/s. Further, at Bhubaneswar much of the time winds blow at speeds between 2 and 3 m/s - which is 35.23% of the time. About 1.3% of time winds were CALM i.e. wind speeds less then 0.5m/s.

SSW[16.6%]

Dominant Direction

2-3m/s

Speed Range

2.9m/s

average speed

1.30%

calm

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

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

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 0.32 1.42 1.74 1.23 0.09 0.05 4.94
NNE 0.18 0.27 1.51 2.33 0.82 0.37 0.37 5.85
NE 0.00 0.18 1.51 1.96 1.10 0.32 0.32 5.39
ENE 0.00 0.18 0.87 1.32 0.82 0.00 0.32 3.51
E 0.05 0.09 0.68 1.55 0.68 0.09 0.27 3.41
ESE 0.05 0.23 0.87 1.46 0.68 0.00 0.23 3.52
SE 0.00 0.27 0.73 1.14 0.37 0.05 0.05 2.61
SSE 0.05 0.27 0.82 2.24 0.82 0.32 0.37 4.89
S 0.09 0.09 1.05 3.74 3.11 2.65 0.91 11.64
SSW 0.09 0.14 1.42 4.38 5.07 3.52 1.96 16.58
SW 0.27 0.27 1.78 5.02 3.15 1.23 0.59 12.31
WSW 0.05 0.32 2.33 4.06 2.10 0.68 0.41 9.95
W 0.14 0.23 1.46 2.24 1.51 0.68 0.50 6.76
WNW 0.14 0.18 1.00 0.91 0.68 0.46 0.18 3.55
NW 0.05 0.37 0.73 0.59 0.18 0.09 0.14 2.15
NNW 0.05 0.41 1.28 0.55 0.41 0.14 0.09 2.93
Total 1.30 3.82 19.46 35.23 22.73 10.69 6.76 100

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